As long as you don't come darting out like a squirrel when you see me going cause I have a green light.

While the intersection I have the most trouble with doesn't have a light, it is between two other intersections with stoplights, about 20-30 yards in each direction. I only cross when there is no traffic or the lights are red. Despite this, traffic still does not stop. More often than not, a car driver will speed past to get to the line of cars at the red light a few seconds earlier. Sometimes, they'll even honk or roll down their windows to shout at me- for crossing in a legal crosswalk, twenty yards from a red light, outside an Elementary School. Because they think I'm creating a dangerous condition for them.

Stop going over cliff's already then damnit. >:(

I like the Toonces alt fursona because it's essentially how I see every driver- They can drive a car, just not very well. (Me too, which is why I don't drive)

I don't understand how people can aggressively honk and shout at people who are using a crosswalk when the pedestrian has the right of way! Isn't that one of the first things a driver is suppose to learn on the DMV test? I've taken to jaywalking in certain areas rather than risk a dangerous (if legal) crossing. I don't care if the law is on my side; it won't protect me from a broken neck.

What set me off today was I got cut off in a legal crosswalk by a student driver while the instructor was texting on his phone. DC is just an awful city for drivers. AllState produces an annual car accidents study and DC's accident rate is in a whole other tier from second place- which is our sister city, Baltimore.

As long as you're not one of those people who starts walking when the opposing direction's light turns red, even though I just got the left-turn green and nearly plow into you because you don't have the walk signal...

No that'd be stupid. Crossing with a DON'T WALK is like turning right on red- There's some leeway, but you can't be a dangerous idiot about it.

Now a days its aluminum and plastic, but your statement still holds water.

Then again, I had some chick yell at me one day saying "I'm a pedestrian, you best slow down!" She was 20 ft away from the crosswalk. So that's probably where most of the angst stems. Everyone doing a little bit of stupid, and thus thinking everyone else is out to get them. <.<

Was she, like, yelling from the sidewalk? That's hilarious.

I'M A PEDESTRIAN!!

Nope. She was yelling at me from the middle of the street.

FWIW this crusty old dude snapped back at me once that if I'm not in the crosswalk, I have no grounds to sue. Glad to know he's found a loophole for mowing people down in his deathmobile.

That's crazy though, you really shouldn't be yelling at cars when you're jaywalking.

Come and visit God's country, where the pedestrian rules the streets and the speed limits don't exceed 20 mph, by will of the campus police.

<3 Pedestrian campuses <3

They're the place to be.

Attention pedestrians : compound fractures can scratch my car, so get the fuck out of the way !

I stop at crosswalks. I don't when people cross in the MIDDLE OF THE GODDAMN HIGHWAY.

Be careful Toonces. Most drivers are idiots. Assume maximum derp when you cross the street.

Motorists: If you don't know the code, get the fuck off the road. Also, indicate. Stop succumbing to selective attention and just do it anyway. Try to be more than a dumb ape. That's all I ask. I know it's impossible.

The drivers where I live seem to be overly accommodating to pedestrians -- like they'll go out of their way to make sure I can cross the road. So that's nice. :)

You wouldn't like Australia. Pedestrians are a nuisance here in the eyes of drivers, and the right-of-way laws are very much biased toward cars. There is no such thing as an unmarked crosswalk, and the marked ones are few and far between.

Otter misses you :(

I only hit other cars, you are safe from me (not that I drive anymore).

Buy an armored suit.

Not my fault you didn't evolve armor plating, faggot. Get quicker!

i hope you get where you need to go, autobot

>implying I'm not a Decepticon.