I just wanted to send out a huge thank you to the walkers/runners/joggers that were running down the road out in Lakeside, at 7:20 this morning. Thank you for having total disregard for the people whose homes you are going by. Thank you for screaming and hooting and hollering so loud when you came by that you woke me from a rather nice dream….and I am NOT on the main road. Thank you all, for being so inconciderate. I am sure the people who worked all night, or those that were simply up all night…are truely grateful as well. Even the basketball players and the hockey hunks wait until 8 before they start making a racket. I know there are bylaws…specifying how early you can make what noise and so forth. I don’t care. If you all had a ounce of respect we wouldn’t need half of ’em. Next time some asshole wakes me up at that time on a weekend, you better be ready, I can run fast and I’ll be toting a box of eggs along. Wake me up again fuckers.
—tired, cranky and going back to bed
This article appears in Sep 24-30, 2009.
“If you all had a ounce of respect we wouldn’t need half of ’em”… especially the laws having to do with assaulting people with eggs… yup
Oh stfu, grumpy.
I get up at 5:00 every morning to go to work – do you think that I act like you when a bunch of students are heading to the bar at 1am when I’ve been in bed since 10?
Negative.
I work nights. How do you think people like me feel when the 9 to 5ers get outside in the morning and think it’s ok to call out to each other, yelling at their brats or allowing their brats to hoot and holler at 8 am? They’d be all over my ass if I did that between 4 and 5 am when I get home from work.
There are a hell of a lot of people you all depend on who work nights and it’s only common courtesy to respect their sleep times as well.
It seems runners, like cyclists, get a free pass for bad behavior because they are somehow more worthy than the rest of us lazy slobs. Not so in my book. My only suggestion to the OP is, instead of wasting eggs, get yourself a Super Soaker water cannon and blast their lycra-covered asses with it.
They’re just as bad as those guys who cruise by in cars that sound like the entire trunk is subwoofer. I swear sometimes it’s so powerful I can feel my bed shake.
wow, I refuse to believe this. Who’s obnoxious when they’re RUNNING? I’m just concentrating on not asphyxiating.
Yeah Dino, I was confused too. These are joggers… who shout when they run? All joggers I have seen were quiet.