Wait your turn.Pedestrians do not always have the right of way. For example, when the crosswalk sign is displaying its bright red "Don't Walk" icon, pedestrians should not be crossing the road. And they sure as heck have no business shuffling along at a snail's pace and blocking cars that have a green light.
The man who blocked me under these circumstances Saturday didn't take too kindly to my horn blasts. He stopped, turned and glared at me. Cute as this was, the nincompoop was keeping me in the intersection, endangering me and snarling the flow of traffic. So I honked again. And again. And again. This served only to agitate the man, who raised his cane and swung it as though he was about to strike my car.
He eventually moved along, enabling me to proceed and the flow of traffic to resume. I yelled at him and he extended the same kindness to me. But my anger was not hate. It was frustration. He had blatantly ignored the rules of the road. And for the sake of us all, he must obey them.
3 comments:
I'll second that. I find that this is also true of many two-wheeled vehicles, whether motorized or people-powered. It is the 'salad bar' approach to traffic laws: "I'll follow this one and this one, but not that one and only a little bit of that one."
He was probably worth about 15-20 points, bonus points for getting the cane to do something funny after impact. Just saying.
you should be patient when people on foot (moving much slower than you) are simply crossing 50 feet of road. If that's the worst thing that happened to you all day, I'd say it's not too bad. Pedestrians ALWAYS have the right of way.
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