To the self-important asshole driving north on Connaught Ave last night around 5pm in a black Nissan. There is a law against hand-held devices while driving….it’s been around for months now dumb-ass. Just cause you think it doesn’t apply to you, most of the rest of us people believe it should. Not only were you holding your phone and talking, you then proceed to pull out a piece of paper and rest it against your steering wheel while STILL talking on the phone. Thanks for endangering me, my wife and my three year old son, not to mention everyone else heading home after work. Kudos. Oh, when you stared at me blankly when I got out of my car, pointed at you, gave you a few pointed gestures and climbed back into my car, at which point you CONTINUED to talk on the phone and look at your precious piece of paper. Lovely, you’re a real star! I hope you wrap yourself around a telephone pole! You’re a self-entitled asshole, clueless and somehow think yourself above the law. Karma will catch up with you at some point….pray that no one else gets hurt because of you.
—Sick of the self-important assholes
This article appears in Mar 26 – Apr 1, 2009.
man oh man, for someone who mentions Karma…should you be wishing that another human being wrap themselves around a pole?
dont take this as me condoning the talking, reading drivers actions. he is totally in the wrong and being a selfish individual. however i am confused by your post OP. youre concerned about human life because of his driving, yet totally happy to see him injured or killed. odd.
What a dumbass. They aughta give him the ol’ car boot. Did you get his license number?
I think what the OP is saying is that he’d wish for the driver to come CLOSE to wrapping himself around a pole, so maybe he’d wake the fuck up and start driving sanely. Honestly, multi-tasking while operating a vehicle can be just as dangerous as buzzed driving.
Once again John, I agree. My first thought after reading that was what a terrible thing to wish on a person, regardless of what they’ve done. Some people get so fired up about that they become a driving hazard themselves. When I lived in BC, at the time there wasn’t that law, maybe still isn’t, I was on the cell phone stopped at a stop sign, knew I’d be waiting a while for traffic. Grand Blvd and Mountain Hwy, if that means anything to anyone. This guy driving by me suddenly braked to wave his fist at me and his mouth just a flapp’n. OMG he came extremely close to causing a bad accident. The guy behind him had to serve around him, fuck was he pissed, it could have been a disaster. I also don’t condone any distractions, cell phones or otherwise.
I get annoyed come election time and the fucking PC’s or who ever start fucking waving at you in the Rotary! Really now, people need to focus there. They should make it a law not to distract people when driving thru there.
So the guy’s in his car, talking on the phone and writing on a piece of paper. Obviously he’s stopped since you got out of your car to address him. Just what danger did he pose to you and your family, OP? Sounds like the biggest danger he posed was pissing you off.
If you wanna be a cop and control other people just go fucking be one. In the meantime, unless it affects you directly, shut your pie hole. You don’t get to control anybody’s behavior, bad or good (save for your own kid’s).
I’ll digress if you say the guy was actually moving but you didn’t so I won’t.
Control freak! You’re gonna be a very unhappy man MOST of your life if you continue like this, unless of course you become a cop so why not just do it?
Kay, that riposte was useless.
Note: ”To the self-important asshole driving north on Connaught Ave…blah blah blah…”Not only were you holding your phone and talking, you then proceed to pull out a piece of paper and rest it against your steering wheel while STILL talking on the phone.”
I find it highly unlikely that this bitch would exist if both of said drivers were stationary at the time of the altercation.
Okay Dino, how did the guy get out of his car to curse the bastard?
Who knows. Do you really expect that the OP is a mad at a dangerously driven parked car? GAB
YES I DO. The OP is a CONTROL FREAK or a wanna-be cop. Either way…
Start digressing…
They could have been at a stop light on Connaught – probably at Bayers. The OP isn’t a control freak, he’s outraged that this spaz wasn’t putting his attention where it should be – driving. Seeing that pisses me off as well. But it pretty much describes 40% of HRM drivers.
Ain’t gonna happen, Dino you Top Commenter, you.
About that, how the fuck did I become number one. I feel uncomfortable all the way up there.
Then move aside, bub. Vrrrooooommmmmmmmmmmmmm!!
lol. I stopped coming on here as much when I noticed I was even on the list.
Boy, did we all digress…
Makes you realize how you are spending your days huh? Imagine if your employers knew your bitch rankings… 🙂
Hey, at least I’m not stuck on Facebook like the rest of my co-workers.
Maybe I should slow down a bit, but ehh! I just can’t stop commenting! What a tizzy I’ve gotten myself into!
…We’ve digressed into a black hole, at that.
I choose LTWWB anyday over facebook. However, can I add you TTFN? What a stroke of hypocrisy that was.
I feel your pain, Brother Dino Jr. The mind is willing but the fingers won’t stop tapping.
This might come as a shocker, but that’s Sister Dino Jr.
I like FB for updates on my buddies who are out of province. But those fucking applications! I don’t want to give goddamn plants to people or throw stupid sheep – it’s as annoying as those flowery messages that wants you to pass the blessing of some fucking angel’s wings to 12 other friends.
Amen to that. I don’t fucking care if I’m LSD or Cocaine on ‘What kind of drug are you?’
Now that’s a good way to fritter your life away – I got friends who would hump FB if they could – at least we’re doing something semi-constructive here.
I think my latest techno-hate is directed at Twitter. Who gives a shit what you are doing right now? Why do people presume anyone cares if there were more floaters than sinkers the last time they went to the can? Lame.
I’m currently bowling over with laughter about how the media thinks they’ve ‘discovered’ Twitter. Please. Twitter was big a while ago. It’s like my grandmother just learning how to use the internets…
Twitter is well named – for twits. I’m afraid I wouldn’t be able to help myself – I’d probably post stuff like: ‘TTFN had a smooth bowel movement this morning thanks to Bran Buds’ or ‘TTFN scratched her huge ass with great relish’. I actually have a life. believe it or not.
Bahahaha, oh you and your crazy bowels have become such a centerpiece of this board its ridiculous.
Hey, what else are ya gonna yak about when you’re looking at 55? It’s all bowels and listening to your buddies brag about their grandkids. Oh, fuck, I just realized – my crazy mother wasn’t so fucking psycho after all….
Why is it people are so concerned about talking on a cell while driving? Nobody ever complains about the people drinking coffe and eating bagels or stuffing their faces with Macdonalds , or putting on makeup or a dozen other things that are done while driving. Funny to me. I think the cell phone bylaw is a joke, people aren’t now magically paying more attention to the road now that we arent allowed to talk on the phone anymore. I think trying to eat happy meal while driving down the road is alot more distracting , why isn’t that against the law too?
Actually, check this out.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/…
It’s the conversation part that is distracting, not the “busy hands”.
Eating, changing the radio, talking to other people in the car are all less distracting than having a conversation with someone who is not on the road with you.
Thank you, Miles. I’m itching to throw a couple of drooling raccoons at the morons who think you don’t get distracted on a cell phone.
Just don’t take your hands off the wheel to toss those critters TTFN.
No prob – I’ll just throw the ol’ tits over the steering wheel and start chucking those little bandits with great abandon. My only fear is their drool running down my arm and loosening my grip.
TTFN, I want to be you when I grow up 🙂
The secret is: Don’t grow up or grow old – just grow.
Sounds like good advice.