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So, some dumb twat calls up a local radio station to complain that a driver purposely aimed for a puddle near a bus stop and now she’s soaked. Ever think to step back from a puddle. Drivers can’t always avoid them. —Power to the Puddle
This article appears in May 5-11, 2011.
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After 3 fucking weeks of this bullshit weather I’m starting to feel like Pharoah’s host crossing the Red Sea whenever I’m walking beside traffic. All right already, I’ll free the damned Hebrews. Y’know for an omnipotent being you can a pretty vindictive prick when you want to be.
How can you know that it was done purposely ?
Perhaps the only choices were drive into uncoming traffic, or on the sidewalk to avoid said puddle .
I can just imagine how pissed off this person would be if either of those choices were used. As a driver myself, it is often not clearly discernable how deep a puddle maybe.
If I’m faced with two choices:
a) swerve to avoid the puddle and potentially soaking a pedestrian, but will swerve into the path of, oh I dunno, a bus or…
b) don’t swerve to miss the puddle and not swerve into the path of a bus and potentially spray someone with harmless water
You bet I’m always going to take option B. Its water, deal with it. Yeah, its cold and uncomfortable, but at least water dries. If I hit that bus to avoid spraying you I may not fare quite as well as you did.
That said, I do try to slow down, when possible, to try not to spray everyone within 30feet, however that doesn’t always happen. Step back from the end of the sidewalk away from the puddles/lakes. Take some ownership of your state of dryness as it is easier for you to get out of the way than it is for a moving vehicle to get out of the way.
Pretty soon we’ll all be travelling by ark anyway.
In Yorkshire we call puddles, dubbs – this useless piece of trivia brought to you by your unfriendly barista/waitstaff/walmart greeter/ SGR bum.
Eeh bah gum lad, a’ll sithee.
Sorry I had to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvtXwhJ2BiY
OP, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if this actually happened because I’ve seen it before.
I was waiting for the bus once and there was this girl with an umbrella on the bus stop across the street from me. Some asshole actually pulled into the bus lane that was full of water, sped up and honked at her as she was soaked head to toe. He almost t-boned another car that was pulling out of an adjacent road immediately after.
The best puddles are in Fairview, if you hit them just right you can get a 5 or 6 foot high splash.
puddles o.p., are the direct result of a rainfall. people who are stupid enough to stand or walk near them, get drenched, simple as they are, in the head. and why bitch, it will rain again tomoorow.
There are some great puddles on Robie Street and plenty of pedestrians. Sounds like the puddle-peering-twat got a free bath/shower…..maybe it’ll rinse the bus stink off her. And for just a toonie and change 🙂 Now go and get those puddles drivers ….vroom vroom.
Back in good old Grade 11, a buddy and I were cruising SGR in his parents’ K-Car.
On the sidewalk stood a bunch of the Grade 12 popular crowd.
A large puddle lay directly in front of them.
Damn straight we nailed it!
“A Nice Reliant Automobile!”
The best puddles in HRM for splashing free of pedestrians are on Brownlow Ave in Burnside, behind the Staples. Some days, driving a large vehicle isn’t so difficult, it’s actually fun.
So, pedestrians should avoid sidewalks if they don’t want to be splashed?? Bullshit! I’ve been splashed before and it’s not ‘just water’ that dries. It’s filthy and leaves you dirty and cold. And you’re soggy for the rest of the day. I’d like to see some of you asshats wait for a bus ON A SIDEWALK, get splashed and be told ‘get out of the way and you wouldn’t have gotten splashed’.
Slowing down slightly does wonders.