First off, while I don’t live in Halifax anymore, I’m not far away and I’d imagine a lot of people in the HRM have the same problem.
During this week’s two storms, I was unable to use the sidewalks in my town because guess what? They weren’t plowed!!!
Now I’m a pretty easygoing person and I understand that snow removal budgets are becoming depleted but what really gets under my skin is the utter lack of respect and understanding drivers have for pedestrians like myself who have to walk on extreme side of the road.
The other day in the twenty minutes it took me to walk to work, I was yelled at twice, flipped off once, and one kind gentlemen had the nerve to nearly hit me while yelling at me and flipping me off.
So I ask all drivers, before being an asshole please realize I’m not enjoying this anymore than you are.
—Pissed Off Pedestrian
This article appears in Feb 20-26, 2014.
Next storm take a shovel with you and clear a path.
I understand your bitch OP, we should all try to get along under extreme circumstances. I agree with you. However I do notice sometimes on Akerley Blvd. in Burnside where the snowbanks are high, some people walk with their back to traffic on the street and with trucks passing you, it’s a bit tight. Some have earbuds listening to tunes, brave souls.
I’d either walk on the other side or in the snow for your own safety.
Im with koda on this one. Take a shovel with you, and carry it sideways so it serves as a buggy whip that keeps vehicles from getting too close.
Hey Pissed Off Pedestrian
I own a very successful retail business on Spring Garden Road and I have a very expensive car so I don’t have to walk from my beautiful waterfront condo to work at my very successful retail business on Spring Garden Road.
Hey TT Fonebone,
I don’t have the time to play with you, having work to do and a life to live .. you keep on pretending you are me, old hag. I’ll keep on achieving goals, you keep on filling your unemployed days with vicarious thrills. How old are you anyways? I’m guessing sixty something .. too late to learn any lessons now, I’d say.
I’m comfortably retired, Budd-hey, after a wonderful career as a graphic designer in the media. I’m not pretending to be you – quite frankly, I can’t think of a bigger waste of time other than reading your silly, pointless drivel. Go achieve whatever, Budd-ache, I’d been there, done that, got the sweatshirt and plenty of awards gathering dust. All that shit is about as meaningful as your shameless self promotion for monetary gain.
My favourite lyric has always been ‘I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now’ by the Byrds. Certainly nothing an ageist like you could possibly understand. Your Budd-ha sounds pretty hateful for a false deity.
I suspect your whole persona is a crock of cockroach feces. So which Timmy’s do you sling coffee at? Of course, the one on SGR with the performance artist outside; rattling his brown cup for native cigarettes and Axe skunk spray – your boyfriend, I presume?
Well, for someone who feels it’s a waste of time reading my comments, you certainly reply to most of them!
But you have much time to waste .. I see that I was correct about you being old, unemployed, and unable to change.
Also, the Buddha wasn’t a deity, he was just a man who worked out how to live happy.
Have fun pretending to be me, it’ll help fill the long hours of boredom in your life. I have some things to do, maybe I’ll play with you later .. when I feel like a laugh.
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No sweat off my bag, Budd-Eh. I don’t have to pretend to be you. I’m perfect just the way I am.
Unemployed by choice – and loving it! You wish you could have it so sweet.
I’ll take age over youthful arrogance any day – is that what Budd-Dough taught you? He needs to be belly slapped then. Repeatedly.
I wouldn’t call retired ‘unemployed.’ It means you worked your arse off for a great number of years and now you get to enjoy the fruits of your labour.
My dad’s retired, too. He sold his very successful business and retired on the funds. The business continues to grow under new ownership and dad just sits back and counts his Gs. Hopefully your business won’t go tits up before you get the pleasure of living like TT and my dad, Buddha.
At least you HAVE sidewalks…
I have to encounter this every single day regardless of the weather and man are there ever some close calls.
Kitty, Budd-Huh is a sum total of a rich family and Tony Robbins seminars. I suspect she despises older women because they make up 90% of her customer base – huge, stretch-marked floppy tits flailing in all directions, complaints about the ‘flimsy and old-ladyish styles’ and those wild 1600% markups for synthetic silks and satin crap from Bangladesh – whoa!!!!!
Her employees claim Budd-Haze often mutters under her breath: ‘Fucking Spring Garden Gnomes’, proving what an ageist little fruit loop she is.
And then there’s these comments on Yelp:
……The sales girls were nice enough when I went in, but I found the owner cold, snooty and stand-offish. She was condescending to her employees and fake/hoity-toity to her customers. I was very self-conscious the entire time I was in there, and wasn’t made to feel welcome or relaxed.
……The merchandise is just not worth the price, and certainly putting up with the odious proprietor is not worth it either. How the other quite pleasant staff put up with her is beyond me..
……This store doesn’t even deserve one star. The owner was extremely aggressive as she was fitting me for a bra, insisting I buy more then one bra when I told her I was only in the market to buy one. I noticed she treated her employees very poorly. I witnessed this and also did my husband who was sitting and waiting for me … many eye rolls behind her employees backs and yells across the store at her employees for bra sizes. I will never go back and if I can help anyone else save themselves from a bad experience and waste of money I will!!!!
Smells like a Bud-Dough to me.
But wait! There’s more!
….I went to this store for a fitting and she was so rude to me. I am a big busted lady but not big anywhere else so I think she was very jealous of me, she fitted me for a bra that felt like my girls were smaller in the cups when i got the bra i took it to another professional to see what the problem was and the other lady OF ANOTHER BUSINESS FOUND THAT THE BRA WAS WAY TO SMALL SO NO, I WONT EVER GO THERE AGAIN, I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THIS STORE TO ANYONE.
…I would not recommend this business. My first appointment for a bra fitting was held by the owner herself. She was aggressive and I ended up guiltily buying 2 bras I wasn’t sure about and spent over $500. After a few days of trying to make them work and being in pain, I contacted the store and was asked to come to shop. She pointed out I was wearing them wrong and in correction of this I was told to give it a few more days and see. I did and still was in pain so returned them. I was then given another member of staff to assist me. We discovered this store’s choice of size was wrong for me and I picked (after trying many) 2 expensive – same price as before – bras and took them home. I have tried to wear these and they are so uncomfortable I can only wear them for a few hours. I would never go back there again. European bras at $200-$350 and uncomfortable???? Never again!! I can’t believe i spent over $500 for 2 bras!!!
Yes, Buddumb, let the internet records show and the word spread. Boredom? Hardly. Putting a preening little twat in her place? Priceless.