Pugwash said..FormulaNova said...
I think people really do learn these things from their parents. Similar to those idiots that think pedestrian crossings are magic and that they can just walk across before stopping or looking.
[sarcastica] fk those fkn pedestrians. Probably going to a fkn tree huggin convention. [/sarcastica].
And... Actually they can. It's the law. They're vulnerable. Those nuisance zebras are there to give folk on foot a chance against bozos in big cars...
No, they are still idiots. I feel that I was lucky in being taught never to cross a road without making sure that the car has actually seen you and is going to stop, before I cross the road.
The idiots I am referring to are the idiots that know they have right of way, whether on the pedestrian crossing or not, and risk their life by walking out without looking or checking. As they say, its no use being in the right if you are dead.
If you are one of these people that don't look or check, and teach your children by example, I hope you never come across a driver that is distracted and doesn't see them. The pedestrian will be in the right of course, but it is still stupid. Its even worse now when you have drivers that seem too easily distracted now by their phone.
Years ago I was driving towards a zebra crossing in a pretty quiet place in that it was near a school, but on weekends was a very quiet street. An idiot kid decided to ride his bike down the footpath, turn right and go straight across the crossing. I am sure if I hadn't anticipated it and slowed down 'just in case' I would have hit him, and I just wish someone had explained to him how dumb his action was.
Again, I am sure he would have been 'in the right' (well kind of sort of), but in reality, what he did was DUMB! Please don't teach your children to behave like that.