Car vs Person = Car FTW

[Red_Dazes]

...I understand that you are trying to get to your class... or your... whatever.
But you were nowhere near the cross walk. do not get mad at me that I didn't just idle at the cross walk and wait for you to get there.

And you lady. You were standing there for about 30 seconds idly chit chatting with your friend ((I know cause the road is completely straight here and there were NO other cars you could have been waiting for. Then when I am less than one foot from the cross walk you actually looked right at me and STEPPED OUT IN FRONT OF A MOVING VEHICLE!
This is a severely stupid move, thank your little butterfly gods that I was actually going campus speed limit unlike the rest of the morons around here, and that I have kick ass breaks, and that by some miracle there was no ice on the road. Because I came two inches away from making you a smear on the road. And you had the GAUL to get uppity with me? Know what... I am not stopping next time... you can get the fuck out of my way.
You will have to learn one day princess that my car... is FAR bigger than you, if you decide to play a game of chicken with my car... my car can, and WILL win. Do not doubt this. It is a proven fact.

[LillFilly]

I do so hate that! They're not paying attention, or just...stop at the edge fiddling around and you wonder if they're going to walk or not. I stop if I see they are a foot or 2 from stepping out, but not when half-way down the sidewalk.

[Mnemjian]

Here Lies [Stupid]
"Had the Right Of Way"



At my school we have the same thing where there's crosswalks everywhere instead of stop signs, and you're just supposed to yield if someone is crossing. I pretty much yield only if someone is determinedly walking towards the crosswalk and will reach it before I cross over (or if they're already crossing of course ). Otherwise, you will be waiting a LONG time if you just yield to every single person who may or may not want to cross at some point! Luckily I've never had anyone get snippy about it... yet.

[mikoyan29]

I realize that said person is stupid but that's not going to mean much when the tickets get issued. IF the cop were fair, he'd give the person a ticket for jaywalking (if he were alive) and you a ticket for failing to yield to a pedestrian.

[sirwired]

I went to a college with a very pedestrian campus. The school was built on the side of a mountain, so there was very little parking, hence little road traffic. You could pretty much cross the street any any reasonable intersection without looking, and this was expected.

Well, I went into NYC one time with several friends, and one of my friends kept forgetting that you can't walk out into busy NYC traffic against a light without so much as a second glance. I'm pretty sure if I wasn't there to grab ahold of her jacket several times, she would have been squashed like a bug...

SirWired

[Flying Grype]

As a pedestrian and a cyclist, I won't move out in front of a car unless I can see that the car is slowing down and/or the driver is waving me through. This is difficult with the preponderance of tinted windows that let the driver see out but don't let anyone see in -- this is a real hazard because it cuts off a line of communication between the driver and the outside world.

[Kogarashi]

Thanks to the propensity for pedestrians around here to pull this stunt, I've gotten into the habit of lifting my foot from the gas in preparation for hitting the brakes should it come to it. I haven't had to actually do that yet, but so many times I've seen pedestrians and cyclists ahead of me on the street just hop out into the driving lane without looking at all. One of these days they're going to do it when a car is too close to stop.

It doesn't help that a lot of drivers around here do the same thing with their two-ton death machines. I've nearly taken bumpers off the front of cars that just had to pull out of a business parking lot into the busy main road just ahead of me.

[Nashida]

I got this yesteray. I was driving through campus, trying to get onto the major roadway we're close. I see two girls coming down from the dorms and approaching the crosswalk, so I slow and come to a stop and try to wave them through. They don't budge. I flicked the headlights. Nothing. I gave a quick beep. Still nothing. They're just standing there.

I wasn't going to wait all day for them to make up their minds so I just rolled through. I'm halfway through the crosswalk when they finally decide to cross and get uppity with me for not stopping for them. Umm, I did, and gave you plenty of time to cross. You can't walk through my car.

[Lachrymose]

Well, I went into NYC one time with several friends, and one of my friends kept forgetting that you can't walk out into busy NYC traffic against a light without so much as a second glance.

Really?

Have we been to the same NYC?

[wolfie]

I can top that - this past week, I was pulling out of a driveway (slowly - tight turn and didn't want to climb the curb) when I saw a pedestrian on the sidewalk start crossing the driveway. Needless to say, I slammed on the brakes, but that moron was at least 2 feet into the driveway before he stopped. I guess my vehicle was too small for him to notice (18 wheeler). Note that my "nose" was well into the street - he almost walked into the side of my trailer.

[ADoyle90815]

Unfortunately where I live, pedestrians frequently pull that stunt, so a good habit here is to take the foot off the gas when you see someone looking right at the street, so when they do step off the sidewalk, there's time to brake so you don't hit them.

[Midorikawa]

And you lady. You were standing there for about 30 seconds idly chit chatting with your friend ((I know cause the road is completely straight here and there were NO other cars you could have been waiting for. Then when I am less than one foot from the cross walk you actually looked right at me and STEPPED OUT IN FRONT OF A MOVING VEHICLE!

To me, this sounds like a passive aggressive stunt - "I can control you. just watch!"

Men aren't the only ones who feel they have to compensate for...stuff. I've had people pull that with me, then walk slowly, across the street. My favorite is when they aren't in a crosswalk, and expect me to slam on my brakes (remember, I drive a 2 ton steel car with no ABS. it doesn't stop on a dime easily.)...yeah. more than once I almost couldn't stop. The person had a deer in the headlights look as they pissed themselves. My car still smells like pee from me doing the same.

[dalesys]

OP: I had the right of way!
SP: You can go to hell!








OP: Oblivious Pedestrian
SP: Saint Peter