Or should I call you "REAL ESTATE BOY"? Hey buddy, why don't you take your Coweta MLS book and move on over there and help them figure out a way to get your 50,000 new friends to I-85 without going through PTC and destroying our little town. Yes, profiteer, it is a charming town...no quotations are needed.

I find you TDK profiteers masquerading as "average PTC citizens" quite amusing. Your hostility and animosity to people that love this city give you away...only a jerk trying to make a buck would be this ugly to someone trying to save this city from traffic hell.

Lowrider: Save Our City has resided in MANY communities in the US, and believes PTC is the nicest town SOC has ever lived in. SOC lives in a very nice ($$) neighborhood, but has never met a single person that could be considered a snob. All of the kids on this street go to church and make it to universities (some elite schools, at that). SOC knows many kids involved in church and community activities. A few bad worms are getting news locally, but there are many good kids in PTC. BTW, does "lowrider" refer to sagging anatomy, or were you alluding to the Latino form of auto modification?

While there are thousands left here enjoying the lifestyle.

Buchead is better, however they are gradually shutting down the jive places there. PTC parents can't take their kids there until they are at least six. May get run over with a stretch limo! We now have about eight drinking sports and smoking bars in PTC, enough maybe for our AA people, but not enough for the semi-AA's. Too bad we still don't have a decent restaurant that doesn't have 1000 more just like it everywhere! I, for one, am getting tired of paying $25 a head, plus drinks, for the same stuff that I can make better at home and not be jammed in with loud mouthed drunks and screamers. These snotty places will go the way of other fads soon maybe. I think when the credit cards are maxed, half of them will close!

Who would want to recreate this mess? Congrats to the teens with alcohol poisoning at the game on Saturday.....big hit ....really. Classy. Your parents are awesome!

As per lowrider, we have ”a reputation of snobs, out of control kids, juvenile problems, absent parents, keeping up with the Jones, and drink until you drop. Our reputation is so bad that the rest of our own County snubs their nose at us because of our lack of courtesy and better than thou attitude.”

The problem is I can’t argue with him/her.

I’ve been here long enough that I know for a fact that in my part of PTC there are good parents and kids alike. The bad ones are put on notice that certain behavior is not tolerated.

I’ve seen parents turning their kind into pedestrians for not coming to a full stop at one of the neighborhood stop signs or driving to fast. We’ve had parents make their kids mow the common property for talking back to them. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that one or two have seen the inside of the “wood shed”.

As far as “parties” go, we have several airline folks here that, on occasion, have left their kids, 15+ year olds, at home for two or three days while their off making a living. The parents go around and announce it to the world that they are not gong to be around and ask us to please keep an eye on things.

What usually happens is that the kids have dinner at a different house every night with one of us. They basically have to apologize for not coming over because they were invited to another neighbors’ home earlier. We park our cars in their driveways. Heck, most of the time they’re at one of our houses anyway so we just tell them to crash in the guest bedroom.

That’s if the kid isn’t at work. If they are, we know their work schedules.

As a rule we inform our neighbors if we’re gong to be having a party, we usually just invite them over, just so they know it’s the parents having the party and not our kids.

If one of us is driving our kid to school for some reason we stop at the bus stop and ask the kids if any of them want to ride with us. You never see a golfcart going to school with just one kid on it.

We neighbors’ lookout for each other and our kids. That’s the way we did it when I was a kid.

I’ve lived in three areas of PTC since I moved here around 20 years ago and it’s been the same in each neighborhood.

Do you know the parents names, addresses and phone numbers of all your kids friends? We do.

You ought to see what a new “boyfriend” has to go through around here. He thought dad was bad until he got to me. We make a game out of it. If he drops off girl child and then goes flying out of the neighborhood, he might as well not come back. We just don’t put up with it.

As far as the two “superstars” at the game the other night, maybe Cal should print the parents’ names and addresses. Then we could all send them thank you cards.

Sounds like you have a great neighborhood. Keep up the good work.

Sadly most the kids and parents we hear about here are not classy....they are trashy. Trashy is not classy.......and trashy doesn't sell homes. People with manners and good kids sell homes.

During the summer we have lawn mower/golfcart races, water balloon fights. Nobody is safe.

Last year we ambushed some neighbors coming home from church and they retaliated with garden hoses. They were still in their Sunday best. It ended with a neighborhood cookout at the pool. (we bought the burgers and dogs)

Halloween is a party for the parents. We get together in the culdesacs and leave the teenagers home to hand out the candy. We’ve got food, music and adult candy.

I’ve been banned from scaring the high school kids.

I have one of those hunting suits that resembles a gunny suit. The neighbors had to come over to see what all the screaming was about.

I would sit on the front porch and the kids would look at the pumpkin and ignore the “bush”, right up to the time the “bush” grabbed them by the ankle.

It was determined that launching high school kids into the street was not desirable.

I may be warped, but the look on their faces is priceless.