kiffie

I am going to use this icon ALL THE DAMN TIME. :D

Hoo.

Okay.

I was riding back from the PAC today. The street is called Perimeter, and Perimeter has two bike lanes -- one on either side. Both are doubly wide so that buses can park in them without disrupting bike traffic. Pretty awesome.

There are also crosswalks pretty much every fifty feet. I stop, or at least slow down, for every single one. Only two of these have stop signs, and I always stop for these.

Now, with crosswalks every fifty feet, WHY do pedestrians insist on crossing the street INBETWEEN the crosswalks? To make matters worse, most of these people pay absolutely no attention to oncoming traffic.

Well, this happened today, and BOY was it a doozy. Typical bleach-blonde bimbo on her fucking cellphone, looking at the ground, not paying any attention to traffic, and crossing IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET. Nevermind that there was a crosswalk not ten feet from where she decided to cross. And then she turns and starts to walk half-with and half-against the bike lane. She's a pedestrian, on her cellphone, not paying attention to anything, and she's walking in the bike lane. Yeah.

I intentionally whizzed by her with inches of clearance and took a horrible satisfaction in her startled cry of "OHMYGOD".

Lady, you're just lucky that I didn't want to fuck up Archie's new light.