donquijote1954
May 30th 07, 09:13 PM
On May 30, 4:09 pm, Clark F Morris > wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2007 17:16:59 -0500, Tim McNamara
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> >In article om>,
> > donquijote1954 > wrote:
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> >>http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/cga0264l.jpg
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> >> Yes, I feel like that, and not even walking you are safe from the
> >> ARROGANT, CARELESS SUV DRIVERS. Case in point, as I was walking down
> >> the sidewalk last Friday (transferring buses, with a heavy box to
> >> boot), an SUV with a young lady at the wheel starts turning into this
> >> driveway to the shopping center, cutting me off in the process
> >> (something kind of usual in this Darwinian city where I live, #1 in
> >> the nation), and I respond by knocking on her window. She then shows
> >> the phone: She's gonna call the police! And I shout at her, "Go ahead
> >> and call the police!" OK, she changed her mind, but she still stopped
> >> some feet further to shout something at me.
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> >> So, under this TERROR we must live. I guess it's normal in the
> >> jungle. Like the sitting duck said, "Never sit down during the
> >> hunting season..."
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> >Stop being such a self-victimizing drama queen. Jeez. The people
> >around you are oblivious of you, whether they are walking, driving,
> >eating dinner, riding their bikes, whatever. They are not going to
> >accommodate your presence. It's not a jungle, people are not out to get
> >you, it's just life going on. Stop personalizing it and acting like you
> >expect to be the center of the universe.
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> That's right Tim. When walking we have to look out for inattentive
> drivers like you who don't yield the right of way to pedestrians and
> probably don't even look for them.-
Exactly, and that makes up for their totally absent minded driving
while chatting on the phone. :(
> On Tue, 29 May 2007 17:16:59 -0500, Tim McNamara
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> > wrote:
> >In article om>,
> > donquijote1954 > wrote:
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> >>http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/cga0264l.jpg
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> >> Yes, I feel like that, and not even walking you are safe from the
> >> ARROGANT, CARELESS SUV DRIVERS. Case in point, as I was walking down
> >> the sidewalk last Friday (transferring buses, with a heavy box to
> >> boot), an SUV with a young lady at the wheel starts turning into this
> >> driveway to the shopping center, cutting me off in the process
> >> (something kind of usual in this Darwinian city where I live, #1 in
> >> the nation), and I respond by knocking on her window. She then shows
> >> the phone: She's gonna call the police! And I shout at her, "Go ahead
> >> and call the police!" OK, she changed her mind, but she still stopped
> >> some feet further to shout something at me.
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> >> So, under this TERROR we must live. I guess it's normal in the
> >> jungle. Like the sitting duck said, "Never sit down during the
> >> hunting season..."
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> >Stop being such a self-victimizing drama queen. Jeez. The people
> >around you are oblivious of you, whether they are walking, driving,
> >eating dinner, riding their bikes, whatever. They are not going to
> >accommodate your presence. It's not a jungle, people are not out to get
> >you, it's just life going on. Stop personalizing it and acting like you
> >expect to be the center of the universe.
>
> That's right Tim. When walking we have to look out for inattentive
> drivers like you who don't yield the right of way to pedestrians and
> probably don't even look for them.-
Exactly, and that makes up for their totally absent minded driving
while chatting on the phone. :(