Crossing the Street Part 2

Yes, I am still bitching about it, well because, as usual I almost got hit crossing a street today, but this time, I had the right of way, as I as walking northbound on Sheridan road, a car kept trying to roll through the stop light to turn south on to Sheridan road, as she was talking on the phone, and not even looking to see me crossing the street, and if I didn't hit the hood of her car with my hand, odds are she would have just hit me - maybe I should have let her - for the insurance money people........

But she rolls down her window, and starts screaming at me, why you hitting on my car? and at this point, I just tear into her - and I think I say something to the effect of "If you got off your god damn phone and actually looked at where the fuck you were going you would have seen that your car was rolling into the fucking crosswalk while I was walking through it, and you would have also noticed the NO TURN ON RED SIGN from 7-7 pm, and that I had the fucking right of way"

Now, if I'm not mistaken, isn't talking on a hand held cell phone while driving illegal? and yet, you don't hear about many tickets being issued for assholes who could care less about anyone else but them selves talking on their cell phone while driving..... at least she wasn't texting.

And, in California, you see police issuing tickets for pedestrian crosswalk violations quite frequently, yet here in Rogers Park, Chicago, you almost never see it, and it happens in front of police a lot, and they seem not to care - does anyone care about pedestrians any longer? It's just out right rude how some drivers are so inconsiderate.

Crossing the Street

Ok, when did crossing the street get to be so hard?

I mean really, didn't the city pass a law that cars are supposed to STOP when a pedestrian is in an intersection trying to stop? I can't count how many times over the course of a week that I try to cross a street and can't because an asshole motorist won't let me cross.

I mean really, it's bad enough that we pedestrians have to try to walk over sidewalks and places that aren't even shoveled, to almost get hit by you Mr or Mrs or Miss or Ms ASSHOLE because you can't even obey the law. Not to mention, we the person standing outside in the cold, have to wait on you, who are probably pretty warm in your car, f'n up our air with your cars emissions, and we the pedestrian have to breath that shit, and by walking, we are being environmentally aware, and reducing our carbon footprint, and this is how we get repaid? By simply trying to cross the street and almost getting hit by you in your car?

And then there's the assholes who decide to run the red light right after it changes - a different kind of asshole all together - not only are you breaking the law by running a red light, you are also, saying to the world that I am more important than anyone, including you Mr. Pedestrian, who I almost hit because you were walking in the cross walk. Really speedy, will getting to your final destination a few seconds faster really make that much of a difference in the general order of your life? Or was your travel planning that bad that you feel you have to rush, regardless of the safety of other pedestrians or drivers?

I bet you are the same asshole that rolls through stop signs rather than stops - STOP means STOP, in case you were wondering. What would happen if you were to roll through the stop and hit a little child that you couldn't see? I cannot tell you how many times I've almost been hit by one of those assholes that roll through a stop sign - and then they look at me as if I'm in the wrong for crossing the street in front of their car - what the @#$%@~#%#%

Some people just need to actually use that thing between their ears for more that tuning out into the social network of the world, and consider others around them