To the jerk in the reddish Honda speeding down Barrington by Scotia Square around 1 PM today……DOUCHE! A young man had hit the crosswalk button to cross a very busy street, lined with buses and large vehicles. Instead of cars stopping, they just kept going even though the crosswalk lights were flashing indicating he was trying to walk. I watched three cars illegally and unsafely go through the crosswalk while he patiently waited for the traffic to stop so he could cross. I just made it to where he was standing when you came barreling along, speeding, and you did slow down and then stepped on the gas just as I was about to cross. You then threw your hands up (both hands, real safe driving there!) and started screaming obscenities because we didn’t cross soon enough and you had to slow down. Really?! Was that really called for? you not only didn’t have the gd brains to actually STOP, you got mad because people hit the button to cross and COULDN’T because of several idiots just as dumb as you ignored the crosswalk lights. It obviously wasn’t safe, as you proved by speeding through, taking you eyes off the road and both hands off the wheel, in an apparent rage. PSYCHO. Slow the fuck down, CALM down, and keep in mind killing someone with your reckless driving will make you even more late for whatever important date you were on your way to. And the media wonders why pedestrian-vehicular accidents occur so often in our little city. People like YOU are the reason. —Angry Lil Red Headed Pedestrian
This article appears in Jan 29 – Feb 4, 2015.
op’s victim impact statement.
so now the jerk gets to laugh at you a second time, and again and again and again.
get the license, report. composing a purge here doesn’t trigger the big karma bazooka.
ANNIE’S MAILBOX #484: IRRELEVANT, VACUOUS AND FLATULENT
“PSYCHO. Slow the fuck down, CALM down, and keep in mind killing someone with your reckless driving will make you even more late for whatever important date you were on your way to.” Angry Lil Red Headed Pedestrian
Are many, perhaps most, bitches and many, perhaps most, comments on this site like something you would read in that advice column, “Annie’s Mailbox?” In other words, the “advice” simply consists of a demand for change over which the perpetrator has no control. Such “advice,” as a consequence, is always irrelevant, vacuous and flatulent.
In the present case, the first word gives the clue. The driver of the car is a “PSYCHO.” That means he has no control over his reckless driving. To suggest that he CALM down is therefore irrelevant, vacuous and flatulent. Since he is a PSYCHO, he can’t. You do see that, don’t you? Further, to advise him that his reckless driving will make him even more late for whatever important date he was on his way to overlooks the fact that, since he is a PSYCHO and so not able to make the logical connection between killing someone and being even more late for whatever important date he was on his way to, your advice is similarly irrelevant, vacuous and flatulent. You see, that is what being a PSYCHO means. It means that he is irrational and your advice, as a consequence is irrelevant, vacuous and flatulent. Maybe you might want him to seek out counselling.
A pleasure as always,
Cheerio!
Look Riding Hood, the law also tells you that you have to stop and wait for the cars to stop before you cross the road. So, what’s the problem?! Relax.
There’s really no excuse for drivers not to stop if flashing lights are on at a crosswalk. As the Good Dog said, take down the license plate # of the offender and report them. May slow them down the next time the same situation arises.