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 I called 911 on my way in to work this afternoon.

I think I've only done that one other time, and that was to report crashing my car (that we'd only had 4 days) when I was 6 months pregnant with Claire (I broke a little bone in my wrist but we were otherwise fine, thankfully.)

So anyway, it was a car full of teenagers acting crazy and scaring me half to death! Of course my immediate thought was -- My children will never ride in the car with a teenager! But, um... well, they will be teenagers someday and their friends will be teenagers, and what on earth is a mother to do?

I was getting on the interstate in Charleston when I noticed a teenage boy hanging out the back window of a car... it looked like he was yelling at the car behind him. It's pretty unsettling following behind something like that -- was it road rage or just a kid goofing off? 

I kept my distance as the car swerved all over the road -- at first I thought a second kid was hanging out the other side of the car, but as I got closer I could see there was only one person in the backseat so he was going from one window to the other. A boy was driving, and a teenage girl was in the front seat. They ended up taking the same exit as me. I kept thinking, what if they kill themselves or someone else? So yep-- I called the cops.

I was hoping when I got into work that I would hear on the scanner they'd been pulled over, but I didn't hear any more mention of the black Jetta.

I know teens have that feeling of invincibility -- I can remember feeling that way too. I just hope if/when it's my kids in the car, someone will do what I did -- try to scare them a little, remind them not to do that to their mother!