So, it’s 11pm on Jubilee (i.e. pretty damn dark) and as I’m approaching an intersection, I notice—really, just by chance—a couple nearly at the corner where they’ll cross at the crosswalk. So I stop. Not on a dime, I wasn’t going that fast. I just stopped. They got to the corner and started to cross and everything seemed quite fine. Until the girl turned around and gave me the finger. Really?! What the hell was THAT for? For noticing you were approaching and stopping for you to cross? Did you have make-out-on-the-corner plans I thwarted or something?
Seriously, this city has some MAJOR anger issues it needs to work out. Flipping someone off for no reason could be a gateway act-of-violence, chiquita. Next thing you’ll be taking a hammer into a hospital, or axing someone in the head downtown in broad daylight. Might want to dial back your inner fucktard before that happens. I’m not sure we can take much more. —Minimal Civility Doesn’t Seem Like too Much to Ask
This article appears in Jun 30 – Jul 6, 2011.
Everyone has major anger issues these days. I think it has something to do with “The End of Times” and 2012.
Good title!
doncha just love the halifux nightlifepeople.
The same thing happened to me today. Are they teaching douchebaggery in school now?
Same thing happened to me today, they must be teaching douchebaggery in school these days.
Ugh stop with the double posting people and press the frigging reload button!
FFS.
PS: I like the this title too!
Yes, apparently asking for civility is too much to ask.
I would have slapped her.
Some pedestrians think that the right of way means that they are gods. Plug in your Ipods and walk right out there. Don’t bother looking first like your parents taught you.. and then if someone doesn’t see you; have an attitude.
I especially hate it when I stop to let someone cross and they just saunter along like some sacred cow!
Come on people; remember that 2500 lbs of steel just got reigned in so that you can avoid the hospital
Maybe she thought you were an undercover cop. Afterall, she was on a corner….likely a hooker.
Another example of how far down the shite index Halifax has fallen;
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/1252203…
Ya! But someone just got stabbed in Fairview, so it all evens out. Lovely neighbourhood, Fairview is.
We just have to hope that the escalation in guns will allow them to kill each other off all the more quickly. (ok, ok, I don’t REALLY mean it, but still… )
Not to mention the two lads downtown who tried it out old school – with a hatchet. Perhaps the Governor General has levied a bounty on the scalps of rambunctious “youts”. Perhaps she ought to.
*Lieutenant Governor.
I wonder if they hold the hatchet sideways like the thugs hold their gats.