Miss Bella

We have situations here where a pair of cars will pull out [apparently friends of each other] the one car in front will do something completely stupid like a 'race-and-stop' in an effort to get you to slam on the breaks whereby having the guy behind you smash into ya. They do this to split the insurance money. How assinign is that? A buddy of mine got caught in one of those and punched the guy in the front car right in the nose. The guy in the back car took off on foot. You see they were hoping that he would give him cash right on the spot - because they banked on the fact that people don't want their 'already ridiculous' premiums to skyrocket due to accident. He stuck around for the cops with the guy in the front car and they halled that guy away. They eventually found the other guy in an ice cream parlor. I wonder how many flavors he got to try before they put him behind bars for the bologna and kool-aid. HEHEHEHE.

Am I going to be the first to say it, ok, here I go, "they are at the DOnut Shop" :) Have a superlative weekend Bella...

Totally unrelated to your traffic story... I LOVE THAT PENGUIN CLIP!!!!! Enough about me... on to the topic at hand!! Let me first state that this is an opinion, and nothing more, based on common sense and practical realities of physics. Most large urban areas have sidewalks and crosswalks provided (some even have bicycle lanes), in these areas, both the driver and pedestrian co-exist usually well; drivers drive on the streets, and pedestrians use the crosswalks and sidewalks. Simple right? Drivers have red and green lights, pedestrians have walk and don't walk lights, again, a very simple thing. Then add the human factor and everything fucks up royally! For this simple reason I believe that the law needs to be amended, modified, changed, or just discarded. Who can stop faster, a car driving 35 mph, or a person on foot doing 5 mph tops? Simple physics people, mass + velocity = longer distance to stop. Before people start flaming me for this opinion, I am stating this from both perspectives; driver and pedestrian! I used to walk alot, when I was up north, in the greater Seattle area. I have been almost hit many times, while crossing in the crosswalk when it was my turn to go. Now, when I'm walking I give the cars the go ahead, for two reasons, First, I'm not burning fossil fuels on foot, and secondly, I'd rather have the potential danger away from me. Simple facts show that people behind the wheel don't pay enough attention to the act of driving a motor vehicle. Now, out here in the "boonies", there aren't many crosswalks, and people use more common sense when crossing any road. As the rule. Pedestrians have the right of way is laughable, since many drivers don't even know who has right of way at a 4-way stop!

I experience such a sense of helpless outrage when I am guiding a pack of children across the street in the city and a driver impatiently drives around us. Kids are unpredictable - it's literally herding cats. You never know who is going to decide to run in a random direction - well, maybe "decide" isn't valid terminology...not so much thought going on there : )

And yeah, Bella, that penguin clip is awesome. You are the queen of cool animated gifs.