Call me crazy, but despite the weather I still thoroughly enjoy my fifteen minute walk to class. While I don’t mind a drop or two, I certainly do not appreciate the head-to-toe shower from commuters not paying attention to potholes.. and I refuse to be “that kid” walking around the Killam in splash pants. Mind driving two inches further to the left? Thanks. —Thrillhouse
This article appears in Nov 4-10, 2010.
dude they WANNA splash you duuh! 🙂
It’s like “pididdle” or “whack a pedestrian – you score points for the size of the waaaave!
No, I do not mind avoiding potholes or puddles as long as I notice in time and don’t put myself or any other drivers in danger. Otherwise, you’re getting wet
Side-track, but this reminds me.
Sometime when Macpass was just phasing in, I was still a token user….held on to the bitter end anyhow. Sometime in the slushy season I approach the toll booths, roll down window, car in macpass lane zooms through beside me and TOTALLY blasts me with slush. I had to pull over and clean the inside of my windshield before I could continue.
Anyhow, made for a memorable and completly crappy day. Walk safe out there, drivers have a hard time seeing dark-clad pedestrians through a foggy rainy wippered windshield.
Those holes are impossible to miss at some places in this city. Believe me, drivers DO try to avoid them because having a wheel repaired is not cheap.
Plus when the holes are filled with water, how is a driver supposed to know a hole is there…..christ, the damn things form in the streets like magic. Or are they fat-people footprints?
I was walking along a very busy Yonge Street in downtown T.O a couple years back, on a rainy day. Some twit driving way too close to the curb got EVERYONE along a 20 metre stretch. A small mob caught up to him at the next light to chew him over.
Millhouse, try looking ahead, If you see a great big puddle – go to the right. Drivers have plenty to worry about without having to think about getting your panties wet. You pay attention, get it?
I don’t find it hard to avoid the big puddles when I drive. Walking to school along Oxford in the spring is horrible because there’s simply nowhere to go when walking by the big puddles. All the houses/buildings along there have retaining walls against the sidewalk.
Nobody cares what you’re dressed like when you’re studying.
hey pissed off hugo. citizens: please pay attention. been there calvin but when you’re soaked it’s too late for retribution. today, on agricola i saw this older gentleman in a one piece yellow rain suit, he looked happy and dry
not paying attention to potholes, o.p., have you taken a close look at these streets lately, how the fuck can you miss them at all. most of the holes are like small lakes and yes, you will get wet from them. my suggestion is to try to find some sidestreets that are away from them. just about all main roads got holes and axle breakers are the worst.
hey painey, yeah I toast.
I see you got annie to write a coherent paragraph. Bravo Zulu.
Carry a handful of gravel and let it fly when they splash ya.
I try not to splash pedestrians, but if you LOVE walking in the rain, why not invest in a pair of waterproof pants?
Once I saw this young guy try to splash a mother and her kids at the bus stop. He actually pulled closer to the curb and sped up, yelling something out the window. Couldn’t believe it.
One must not forget that more than half the worlds population lacks sufficient drinking water.
TY
#1- in case you haven’t noticed its monsoon season out there which means there has been an insane amount of water on the roads. And those potholes you mention have been FULL of water creating small lakes in the streets making seeing those potholes next to impossible. If I could see them to avoid them i would (of course assuming I wasn’t getting in the way of another driver in doing so)
#2- DASHBOARD POINTS!!! (also known as pididdle)
#3- if a certain street has been particularly bad with its pothole lakes find a different route to walk. I have enough to pay attention to when driving to worry about people on the sidewalk.
The worst one is at the corner of Wyse and Nantucket (?) where the Scotiabank is on the other side of the McDonald bridge. I run over, press the button, and run as far away as I can because when people tear through in the righthand lane, the splash is insane.
there once was a girl said nantucket
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I’m going to leave that one hanging.
isnt it illegal to do that?
pull over to splash someone?
I heard it was ages ago and took it as truth at face value.
and Walter… been there. that happened to me this past spring.
abso-fucking-lutely drenched.
I know it’s illegal in Britain. There was a vid of a guy intetionally speeding up to splash school kids. He got “hunted down” and fined.
How helpful is that … not very.
about as helpful as telling me it’s illegal on the moon.
and should be rightfully so.
That’s some pretty amazing water.
I’m waiting for nasa to start selling it in bottles….
raping the moon of its elements seems like the next step.
You mean the moons 😀 Cruithne needs love too.
Moonwater™. I’d drink it.
hey donkadonk lovin the tm. the only thing worse than splashing people intentionally, is avoiding them and crashing into another car…dress for the weather like when you were three PAY ATTENTION
good call on Cruithne though who knows what that thing is made of….
It could be Blue Ice from the Romulans for all we know.
a Lunar eclipse.
1 part Moonwater™ to 2 parts smirnoff blue with a single ice cube in the shotglass…
moonwater for moon… smirnoff blue for the sun (burns the throat going down) and the ice is the earth swimming in the middle. makes sense.
all we need now is to rush to market for December 21
Now you’re speaking my language! I like it!
People going fast in the rain isn’t my bitch…If i had a bitch it would be all the MORONS who are terrified to be on the highway in the rain & you can see them at the front of every pack of drivers nose pressed to the windsheid, death grip on the wheel & driving along at 70 kms an hour !
Those assholes are the real problem on the highway.
IF your so afraid of driving in the rain keep you & your shitbox on the side roads, or even better take the bus, & stay out the way of those who don’t have a problem driving in the rain.
You’re supposed to increase the 2 sec gap to 4 sec in rainy/snowy conditions.
But yeah, I’ll never get ppl who drive with a death grip on the wheel. Why can’t driving be an enjoyable experience? You control the car. I just think it would be torture to not enjoy driving, having to keep my radio off for concentration and having hands stay at 10 and 2.
I hear you Donkey. I love driving. Lets face it, we’ve only been able to muster up sonic speed(j/k) for the past 100 yrs or so. Before that we could only travel as fast as the fastest horse or donkey:). Before that, well it was as fast as we could trot. Boy, have we come a long way baby!
Driving with death grippers, scares the crap out of me:(