DEAR PEDESTRIANS: FUCK OFF!
sucka had a comment conversation the other day that was ended in something like "if i were a car you'd be dead." i find myself repeating this mantra all the time now.
this morning i was rounding the bend on wanamaker/10th st off 4th ave into the bike lane pretty slow and this lady was crossing on the green light. i yelled for the pedestrians to get out of the way and she kept running in my way. i swerved left, she ran left, i swerved right, she ran right. deer in the headlights. so i collided with her (very lightly), jammed on the brakes, fell off and hurt both my knees. ughhhh. i even have a helmet because of my concussion. anyway. fucking deer hits deer in headlights.
posted by Antlers at 5/17/2005 10:10:00 AM
7 Comments:
it would really make your friends feel better if you would promise not to get in any more accidents.
also, what's your standard expostulation to warn those freaking peds? (i prefer whistling or yelling, yo!)
i prefer the wistle to get peeps attention first too. its kinda condesending and catches folks arttention, if that fails theres always my big mouth!
but im pretty sympathetic to peds, cos i am one 90% of the time im not on my bike.
yeah i felt really bad about hitting that lady today and i'm really not interested in hurting anyone or falling off my bike but we have traffic laws for a reason.
I usually yell "fuck you, its the street! SideWALK motherfucker."
my happiest moments are when I hi-five assholes hailing a cab in the middle of the street.
(I've only done it once, but I got a half-rod pretty much instantaneously from how hard I had to smile.)
(I hate hearing that you keep getting creamed on your bike. I hope that woman learned her fucking lesson and feels the fool. it sucks all round, but you could have been really hurt. fuck that woman.)
as a bicyclist, pedestrian, and driver, i guess the trick is to remain sympathetic to the other two groups. i always find it too easy to get self-righteous and aggressive as any one of the three. but that might just be my personality. our deer antlered girl is better at being nice, for sure.
yeah it's tough to be aggro when you instinctively yell "excuse me" when you're about to ram into pedestrians.
my boss hit some dude when we were riding thru BKLYN chinatown tonight!
he was fine and walking away, when someone started telling him he should get her number! Then he started holding the side of his head, Injured? think not
so after hanging out for five minutes of people talking chinese, english, and my incoherable muttering, we left and enjoyed vietnamese food.
his fault, jaywalking when my friend had the green.
SHit i figure if im gunna follow a law, its gunna be a traffic law, saves you ass, when everyone is going the same way, or stopping at the red.
But hell if your gunna jaywalk, wahtevs, just take responsibility for your incapability of looking right AND left before crossing.
And when im walking and cycling, i am better than cars, fuck them! its a friggin 2000lb peice pof metal, you better be cautious, cos that fuk'r is not gunna get hurt!
-always cautious/sometimes driver
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