To the driver at the Chebucto/Mumford intersection that had to wait an extra 15 seconds for my friend and I to cross the road: Seriously, dude, we had the right of way, you saw us in plenty of time- you even stopped. However as it was that every inch of the ground was ice and despite wearing our grippiest of footwear we can still slip and crack our skulls on the pavement. We can’t walk faster, even if you do blare your horn right in our ears. In fact it startled my friend enough that she almost lost her balance. Bet it would have been fun to wait an extra minute or two while she got herself back up had she fell. Anyway, point is don’t be such a douche.
This article appears in Dec 13-19, 2007.
Wow! That’s sad. Here’s a jerk in a nice warm car while you’re trying to manoever over icy ground, probably freezing your ass off to boot. Then he has the unmitigated GAUL to lay on the horn??? Makes you wonder if all this impatience doesn’t have its roots in our ‘instant’ society.