Pedestrian Rage

[Mighty Girl]

Oh geez! They should be happy you didn't run their asses over, not everyone would have been so accomodating....

I've run into people like that- in fact, the last time my husband went to the grocery store with me, I nearly had to smack some old wench who was just being obnoxious.

We were loading our stuff on the belt, and she kept "bumping into" my husband. She was older than dirt, smelled, clearly overdue for a good denture soaking....so he said "excuse me" to alert her to the fact that she was being an ass.

Naturally she turned it around and said he was trying to block her from being able to load her stuff, that she didn't "injure" him, etc. DH is a really really chivalrous guy- and plus, she was old, so he was just really hesitant to tell her what she could do with her cart. I'm not that nice- assholes come in all shapes, sizes and ages, just because they're old doesn't mean they can treat people like pond scum. I asked him several times to switch places with me, he refused (he knew I'd rip into her). So then it's finally time for us to leave, and I made my way around him and told her, "You got off easy, my husband feels sorry for old women even if they are gnarly bitches, but if you ever get your cart that close to ME- I'll hit you so hard with it, it'll have to be surgically removed". I was about 2 inches from her face when I said it, and she just looked at me.

I saw her again a week or so later at the store, I was there alone, and any time I started down the aisle she was in, she turned around and went another way. I never saw her again.

[Binky]

Why the city hasn't put in a sidewalk yet, the Mall has been there since the late 70's, I don't know but usually around here somebody has to die first before the city gets off their collective a$$es and does something about it.

You know how I said my bf hit someone, well that was the final straw for the locals, they had been asking the council to close down the pub about 100m from that blind corner for YEARS and it took someone almost being killed on that corner for them to close it down. It really has to be someone dieing/getting serously hurt before they will do something....because it means effort and money they don't want to use up...common..why do you think people enjoy those sort of jobs...you don't have to do anything when you don't want too

[Kogarashi]

We had a busy street outside a building I worked in back in Utah. Main thoroughfare for the area, and a good four blocks with no crosswalk or traffic lights. I occasionally had to run errands from the office building I worked in to the print shop on the other side of the street. Since both were located in the middle of this 4-block stretch, it was a pain in the butt to try to complete this errand. It took too long to walk all the way to the corner, wait for the crosswalk signal (on a timer), walk all the way to the print shop, walk all the way back, wait again, and walk all the way to the office building. So instead I took my life in my hands and jaywalked across the street (or, rather, jayran). That street was four lanes wide, two in either direction, with a few on-street parking spaces directly in front of the print shop making a fifth "lane."

I asked my supervisor about it once, and she explained that the city wasn't going to put in a crosswalk in the middle of the street until somebody actually got hit by a car.

[heather124]

Anyway a lady comes out of the exit, we follow her to her car in hopes of grabbing her spot. She just hops in and sits in her car for a few minutes

My mom ALWAYS did this when I was growing up. If she saw someone following her for a spot she would make sure she got in the car...check all the mirrors...make me get out to make sure the headlights and brake lights were working, adjust her hair, put on her lipstick..anything to make the person wait. I don't know what her deal was but she didn't want to give up a spot if she knew someone was waiting. It used to embarrass me to death as a kid.