To the lady that took the time to slow to a crawl, roll down her window, and yell at me that, “It doesn’t say WALK!” while I was waiting on the median between two roads. Yeah, I know it doesn’t say walk, that’s why when I met oncoming traffic I stopped at the median. For people who walk the same route everyday they know the area, they know when a red light to one set of cars means they can keep walking to the middle, where there is a green light to the oncoming set of cars, we can STOP, wait, and finish walking when the coast is clear. Tell me, who is it hurting? I get to work quicker and nobody is in your way. You know what probably is MORE annoying? Having the car in front of you slow to a crawl to yell at a stranger, effectively holding up traffic, when they easily could have minded their own business and been on their way at a speedier pace. But, thanks for the play-by-play, I’ll be sure to take that into consideration as I continue to not give a fuck. —Green Means Go
This article appears in Sep 15-21, 2011.
I think we should all start carrying a few water balloons.
If I was driving behind her I would lay on the horn nonstop until she started moving.
did you yell “This is called standing you dried up old reptile!”
I would have.
Tell her to get a big tasty cup of Go Fuck Yourself
When I see people waiting at the median on the Circ, I guide my car close enough that the updraft blows all the sand, dirt, etc into their eyes. Some dumb fuck who was attempting to cross the 5 lanes on the Circ near Burnside recently got a face full of bumper and knocked right off the road dead. Stupid fuck should have used the new pedestrian overpass. The driver of the car was not charged with anything. 🙂
LOL she’s probably the first one to go through a crosswalk on a green with someone walking in it!
This happened to me yesterday — with two cars! There was an accident on parkland/lacewood. I think someone got hit because there was only one car involved and there were two cop cars and an ambulance. Anyway, I’m crossing with this older lady — we have the walk signal and are crossing and this old fuck just barely clips by with his left hand turn without hitting the older lady in front of me. THEN this other old bag has to slam on her breaks while making a left hand turn for the same reason. I stood there, took off my sunglasses and glared at the old hag for a good few seconds before I kept going (while keeping my eyes on her — she got the point, I assure you).
What was annoying, though, was how there were TWO COPS THERE — and the van in the accident was already hauled off, and the ambulance was loaded and everyone was ready to get going and the cops CLEARLY saw this guy almost hit the old woman, but did NOTHING.
Probably worried it’d cut into their donut-eating time.
That whole area is bad, Kitty. When I lived in Clayton Park, part of my regular walking route was in the area you mentioned and I can’t tell you how many times I nearly became a hood ornament. The worst culprits were, as you said, the people turning left off of Lacewood into any one of the driveways or parking lots that branch off of this street. And 85% of the offenders were the old people trying to get into their apartments/condos. Just point and go without looking. It didn’t take me long to just keep to the powerline trail.
sebastian, i bet you’re deadly with the ladies 😀
Charmer, he is! Charmer!
Cool Pretty Kitty broke out her Angry Eyes..LOL
I would have said “You here the sign talking to you? Can I have what you’re smoking??”
That would have been such poetic justice for her to get crunched. Explain THAT to your insurance agent, Douche.