not a shopping area, but residential area, when there is a perfectly good sidewalk a few feet away.

And then having the balls to give you the stink eye when you beep for them to get the fuck out of the way.

Or walking at 10 at night no street lights dressed in all black.

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Originally posted by blueye:
Or walking at 10 at night no street lights dressed in all black.

damn near smashed one of those a week ago. luckily it was sober enough to dive out of the way. what a dumbfuck.

Walking in the right lane, back to traffic, below the crest of a hill.

Standing in the road, near the top of a hill, with a few inches of snow on the road.

The office I work at is in a business park and at lunch people routinely walk 3-4 abreast with zero awareness of traffic. It's one thing for me in a regular SUV but many of these businesses get truck deliveries all day long. They can't dodge these morons as easily.

y'all would despise living in tiny town


we get'em walking three and four wide,
but 1/2 of the homes do not have sidewalks

What I've seen in my neighborhood as I'm driving home is a woman pushing a baby stroller with her back to traffic, not on the perfectly good sidewalk on either side of the street. And not on the side of the road next to the park cars but well in the driving lane.

WTF. Do these people not think??? I don't care about them, what about the baby they're pushing?

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What I've seen in my neighborhood as I'm driving home is a woman pushing a baby stroller with her back to traffic, not on the perfectly good sidewalk on either side of the street. And not on the side of the road next to the park cars but well in the driving lane.

Let me add you are also driving into the setting sun. Happened to me last week. It is called a lack of situational awareness, or just plain old stupidity.

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Originally posted by bendable:
y'all would despise living in tiny town


we get'em walking three and four wide,
but 1/2 of the homes do not have sidewalks

I grew up (and still live) in a small town. Only difference is as a kid my dad taught my brother and I to respect traffic, be it on foot or on bikes. And yes, I know bikes technically have a right to the road as well but it's a dick move to hold up traffic so you can poke around on your damn toy. Go single file for a moment.

Oh yeah.

Last weekend, visited my son and his wife who live in neighborhood bordering one of Chicago's less "refined" areas.

I needed to make a quick run to the store and two locals just sauntered into the road in front of me, forcing me to slam on the brakes.

I didn't honk because that would be a "trigger" around there. But, I did pull up close to them so they'd know I was there. They just gave me a cold, insolent stare, as if daring me to do something about them blocking traffic.

People wonder why I don't take the snowplow off the F-250...
They GTFO of the way for that!!!

Don't come to Baltimore after a snow storm. 90% of population walks in the streets as no one clears sideways. Chris

I live on a cul-de-sac & have 2 neighbors a few houses down, who both have dogs that have tried to attack my dog. Their houses are directly apart from each other. Every day I go right down the middle of the road. Not what I prefer, but I figure it's the safest way to get down the street. It is a quiet street, but it is irritating. Once I get past them, I do walk on the sidewalk. But I do see people walking on busy streets when there are perfectly nice sidewalks a few feet away & I wonder what their reason is.

Sidewalks and crosswalks are just ways the man keeps a brother down.

New scam methinks. Leaving my neighborhood several weeks ago, at night, dark as hell, some guy just all of a sudden starts crossing the street and didn't care a car was coming. I slow down, of course, but I had a wtf look on my face. He didn't jog, walk briskly, nothing, just as slow as he could go. He honestly didn't give a shit. As I drove past him looking bewildered he flipped me off. I think he was doing it to purposely get hit, i.e. lawsuit. They do this shit over in Russia every day.

If you find people walking in the road bothersome, then driving in Korea would make you crazy.

This activity is most common in the inner city. i always joke that they use every government service but the sidewalks.

today we hopped in the neighbors mini van to head up to the big city .

two blocks away we see s 20 something walking her dog and pushing a jogging stroller.

it takes us 30 seconds to get to her and she's not looking behind her for traffic.
she's as in the middle of the street as one could get.

so I wait for her to turn around and see us following her.

two houses, four houses, six houses all with sidewalks,. . . . . . .still right smack dab in the middle , no way to pass.

I have never seen this before in tiny town,
so I creep up to two car lengths behind her,
give her a blast on the old horn,

scared the shit out of her she stumbled side ways when her knees buckled , giving us a space to pass,
as we curved around her she exclaimed "whats wrong with you ?"

I chortled.

People that are blocking the way so that other people cannot pass fall into two categories. Either they don't know they are doing it, which means they are idiots, or they do know they are doing it and they are assholes. Either way, they suck.