[expletive] you, you [expletive]! I hope you die.

[thrill]

I know more about crosswalks than anyone on this board. No, I know more about crosswalks than anyone period.
And I'd look boastful, if I was honest and told you that I know more about pedestrians than anyone in the world.

I'm just a high school crosswalking coach :(

[InvincibleCakeEater]

I've been walking in crosswalks for 25 years. I'm actually walking in one right now.

[TabascoElvis]

When I was in high school it was a hobby a bunch of guys I know to make college guys run across the street. We'd drive through the local college (a small private school full of rich arogant jerks) on a busy public street and the frat boys would walk in front of oncoming cars and never in a cross walk. We got sick of them making cars stop for them so we started speeding up when they walked in front of us. They finally got the hint because it almost never happens anymore after being a common thing for 50 years before. I think the college started giving the frat guys hell about doing it too because cross walk usage is the norm now.

That may have been me, hudler, if that happened where your location is currently set to. On second thought, probably not, because the only reason to cross the road was to go to class. I may have cheered you on from the porch, though, depending on who was in the road at the time. Yeah, I was a cake eater... but not the rich, arrogant jerk kind. I think.

When did you graduate? Didn't you love it when a townie called you a cake-eater?

'86. Was that you? I never got the cake eater thing. Didn't you guys have cake? Maybe brownies for your b'day.

I was there when the big news on "local" TV one winter was the giant snowball fight that, uh, escalated.

I graduated from high school in '87, so that probably was me. I'm not sure about the 'cake-eater' thing either,we've always called the Westminster guys that. I do know that 'cake-eater' is a jazz era term used to call someone a sissy. The college kids and locals get along a lot better now, but until the 90's there was a barely concealed hatred between the two groups with a lot of fights,with the frat boys usually getting the worst end of it.

Can't we all just get along?

I don't remember many face to face conflicts with the townies, other than a chunk of firewood launched through one of our windows during a party one night. We had kind of a built in mediator in our house though, guy who went to North Cal and knew pretty much everybody in the county. Did have some trouble at The Spot one night. Been a long time ago though.

[Swatcat27]

I know more about crosswalks than anyone on this board. No, I know more about crosswalks than anyone period.
And I'd look boastful, if I was honest and told you that I know more about pedestrians than anyone in the world.

it doesnt matter if you didn't earn your paycheck doing that.

[New Pagodi]

It seems that people in cars are getting more inconsiderate lately. A few days ago when I was parked on the street and trying to get in my car, someone gunned it so that I couldn't get in. And this was a POS 80s style station wagon. I'm surprised engine parts didn't start falling out when they did it.

Just yesterday I was trying make a left turn into a parking lot and the single oncoming car decided to floor it to keep me from doing so even though it meant they then had to slam on their brakes to stop at a redlight just passed me. It must be the heat or something.

[MrCrowesGarden]

I think it's fine to jog or pick up the pace when walking across a crosswalk if that's what you want to do (and I do that too quite often). But there is no imperative that pedestrians do that. People driving in cars need to get it through their skulls that the right to using the roads is contingent on them realizing that they have to share it with all the other people (pedestrians, cyclists) who also have the right to get to wherever it is they are going. And sometimes that means taking a little longer to get to where you're going.

I'm guessing this is directed at me.

All I was asking is just for pedestrians to walk at their standard walking pace. That's all. Some people walk slower in crosswalks, and I don't especially appreciate that. I'm not saying they need to hustle their butts across, but just walk as fast as you normally would.

I guess I equate slow walkers to the people who drive slow in the left lane. It's inconsiderate to everyone.

[G. Keenan]

It seems that people in cars are getting more inconsiderate lately. A few days ago when I was parked on the street and trying to get in my car, someone gunned it so that I couldn't get in. And this was a POS 80s style station wagon. I'm surprised engine parts didn't start falling out when they did it.

Just yesterday I was trying make a left turn into a parking lot and the single oncoming car decided to floor it to keep me from doing so even though it meant they then had to slam on their brakes to stop at a redlight just passed me. It must be the heat or something.

I think the summer makes people more aggressive. Maybe the heat makes people irritable. Maybe hormone levels are higher or something. This week I've noticed several honking wars on residential streets. One car will honk in some totally unjustified situation, like the car in front of them is driving down a residential side street at the speed limit. So someone in a hurry honks, then the car in front honks back to say eff you, then the original honker honks back and they just go on like this. Absurd.