Ok, this is actually an example of hell is *not* other people...unless it's the designers of this asinine crosswalk.
Anyway, there is a crosswalk across a busy 4-lane, 45 MPH highway on my way to work. There is no signal so pedestrians are at the mercy of 4 lanes of traffic to stop for them. This morning there was a guy waiting to cross and we all miraculouosly stopped for him. He (cautiously) ran across the crosswalk, waving his thanks to all of the motorists who were stopped.
I thought, "Now *that* guy knows how to get his ass across a crosswalk!"
He surely beats the heifer on her cell phone who sauntered across in front of me at a stop light the other day. She didn't have a walk signal and my light changed to green when she was about 1/4 way across. I waited until she got right in front of my car and then laid on my horn. he he he It was grand fun watching her jump out of her skin. :-)
Anyway, there is a crosswalk across a busy 4-lane, 45 MPH highway on my way to work. There is no signal so pedestrians are at the mercy of 4 lanes of traffic to stop for them. This morning there was a guy waiting to cross and we all miraculouosly stopped for him. He (cautiously) ran across the crosswalk, waving his thanks to all of the motorists who were stopped.
I thought, "Now *that* guy knows how to get his ass across a crosswalk!"
He surely beats the heifer on her cell phone who sauntered across in front of me at a stop light the other day. She didn't have a walk signal and my light changed to green when she was about 1/4 way across. I waited until she got right in front of my car and then laid on my horn. he he he It was grand fun watching her jump out of her skin. :-)
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Re: Crosswalks
Fri, April 4, 2008 - 11:25 AMI hate pedestrians that take your one chance to pull out into traffic on a busy street. If I see a car waiting for awhile because of pedestrians or at a busy intersection and there's a break in traffic I'll always stop and let them go. Just because I'm a pedestrian does not mean I rule the road....I wish more people thought this way. -
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Fri, April 4, 2008 - 11:28 AMYeah, me too. We let them go because hell is *other* people...not us. ;-)
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Fri, April 4, 2008 - 3:47 PMThat happened to me the other day. Maybe I'll lay on the horn next time...you know, if I'm late to Starbuck's or something... -
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Mon, April 7, 2008 - 4:32 PMSlow to cross is just being jerky. Especially these 'too cool for school' dudes - you know, the ones with pants down to their knees. -
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Mon, April 7, 2008 - 5:11 PMI remember a classic incident of this a few years a go. Driving down a main road in town, with a 35 mph speed limit, there was a group of about five or six cars, including mine.
Ahead was a crosswalk (no stop sign or lights, just a crosswalk at the intersection of a side street) with a man, and an elderly woman, probably his mom, on the sidewalk.
Of course, as we all approached, they walked out in front of us, necessitating hasty stops for all cars. He helped her across the very wide street, which naturally took ages.
The ironic thing was, that behind this little clump of cars, there were no other cars for at least 200 yards. I looked.
If they had just waited 5 or 6 seconds, all of us would have driven by, and then they could have taken as much time as they wanted to cross. But, noooo, they just *had* to cross right then and there, right in front of us, a dangerous decision, considering her age and obvious frailty.
Sorry, but having the "right" to cross as a pedestrian does not mean being irresponsible or discourteous! -
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Mon, April 7, 2008 - 6:04 PMUgh, that happens to me all the time. I also hate the people in cars that pull out in front of you, forcing you to slam on the brakes when there's no one behind you.
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Fri, April 25, 2008 - 6:10 PM"which naturally took ages"
and by ages, you probably mean under 60 seconds. what a bunch of whiny assholes! fucking suck it up for the 20 seconds it takes someone to cross the street! i'm not going to run scared across some street, so you can shave 10 seconds off your 3 minute commute to the handi mart. and if you fucking dare to honk at me while i'm crossing in front of your polar-bear-killing car, i'll gladly give you an earfull about why you need to slow the fuck down and show some respect, all the while standing in front of your car, delyaing you even further. yes, i have done this to an idiot bitch who careened around a corner, ignored the walk signal, stopped centimeters away from me, and had the audacity to honk at me for getting in her goddamned priviledged way. i nearly jumped on the hood of her car. so why don't y'all stop driving like idiot bats out of hell and smell some fucking roses already!?
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Fri, May 2, 2008 - 10:37 AMI like when they put out their hand in the "stop" gesture. As though:
one) ...it would actually do any good to stop my car
two) ...they have the right to cross against a green as long as they pretend to be a crossing guard.
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Mon, April 7, 2008 - 8:04 PM<<It was grand fun watching her jump out of her skin.>>
Hahahaha! I would have paid to see that.
BTW, how the hell do elderly and/or handicapped people get across such a street? Sounds like a lawsuit just waiting to happen. -
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Mon, April 21, 2008 - 4:57 PMOn my way to work I have to drive through a crappy neighborhood, ok its " Da'Hood ", and I have to drive through the nice section of town as well. Why is it only the poor jerks with their pants around their knees (see above post) that take their time, and look at me like "go ahead, I'm so tough I can withstand a car hit"
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Tue, April 22, 2008 - 1:08 PMWhat gets me riled to no end are the people who cross busy streets willy nilly. They seem to think nothing of darting into traffic, fully expecting each and every driver to be able to decipher that they are going to need to cross RIGHT THEN AND THERE, even in a 40 mph straightaway, when stopping suddenly is nearly impossible to do. Too many times, I have seen people nearly crash into another car or hit a pedestrian just cause some fucking fuck can't be bothered to walk an extra 20 feet down the street and cross at a cross walk.
See, when I see someone at a crosswalk , I automatically start to slow down so as to let them cross. It's the law here. And I get that most corners are considered crosswalks of a sort and slowing down to let someone cross a street is to be expected and so I try to be aware of that too.
But crossing ( and I mean actually darting back and forth like you are the frog in a game of Frogger and you are trying to gain as many points as you can) in the middle of the freaking four lane busy street- seriously, you are really pushing the limits of good pedestrian manners there.
I so don't want to hit someone or see someone hit, but at the same time I really have to wonder if Darwinism is in effect, culling the herd just a little.
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Tue, April 22, 2008 - 7:58 PMThe best ones are the ones that come darting out from between two cars, esp. when those cars are large vehicles. -
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Wed, April 23, 2008 - 7:28 PMGod, I hate those people with all the fury of a thousand suns who hate another thousand suns. -
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Thu, April 24, 2008 - 9:22 AMHere's a spin...kind of.
Cyclists! And I'm using the term *very* loosely here. Specifically I'm talking about people who ride their bikes against traffic on the shoulder, in the bike lane, or along the edge.
True story:
A few years ago I was driving along a city street and there was this guy riding against traffic. I didn't notice him at first because he was right at a cross street and had kind of swerved into that cross street to ride as I was approaching him (I hope you can picture this). Just as I got to him, he swerved back out of the cross street and was coming right at me. I slammed on my brakes and was summarily rear-ended by the car behind me. Of course, the "cyclist" kept on riding. Well, my then-husband jumped out of the car, kicked off his flip-flops and went running down the street after the guy.
He caught up with him a couple of blocks later and grabbed him by the scruff of his neck. A police officer happened to be in the area and saw the apparent assault on an innocent cyclist by my husband. The cop came over and all my husband (who was very excited and still did not have a completely firm grasp of English) could think to say was "THIS MAN IS GUILTY!!"
Well, it turns out the guy really *was* guilty. He had a warrant out for his arrest for B&E. LMAO! -
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Thu, April 24, 2008 - 9:42 AMWhere I live there area a LOT of windy two lane roads. Cyclists (the ones in the full out cycling gear) LOVE to ride two across on these roads forcing you to slow to a literal crawl until you can safely pass them. I HATE these cyclists. -
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Thu, April 24, 2008 - 10:00 AMI ride my mountain bike in the middle of the lane ..... WHEN NO ONE IS COMING! When I hear a car coming up behind me I pull off the road and let them pass. So it always gets me pissed when some stupid fucking cyclist does that to me when I am driving. So as a bicyclist myself, I honk. Then they give me the "Look of Death" the "I own the road" look. So I yell out the window, "You know mountain bikers don't get killed by cars" sometimes they get the hint other times they just keep going in front of me. Assholes.....
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Fri, May 2, 2008 - 10:24 AMI love the new grammatically inaccurate bike areas they painted onto the roads up there (Portland).
"WAIT - HERE"
...apparently the guys doing the painting decided to change the original design because they thought the dash "looked good".
