people who nearly run me over every day when coming out of the mcdonalds drive through as they ignore the stop sign, speed, or simultaneously accelerate as they rifle through their mcdonalds bag to m

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DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 16 May 2005 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"die die die die" maybe a new regular feature

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 16 May 2005 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

(i suspect this won't be as popular as my recent blockbusters "flipped collar douchebags" or "lindsay lohan's mams", but sometimes you've gotta take time off and do a personal project

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 16 May 2005 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sorry to hear about this

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"lindsay lohan's mams = DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE"

-- disney cgi team, 2005

― g e o f f (gcannon), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"linday lohan's mams" was a one-off

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 16 May 2005 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

"lindsay lohans mams: choose life"

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 16 May 2005 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

JITTERBUG

― g e o f f (gcannon), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

change your approach

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

http://cache.eonline.com/News/Photos/l/lohan.dina.lindsay.011905.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

supersize... that... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

That is not Lindsay Lohan! Is it?

― kirsten (kirsten), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

She looks like that English woman on Frasier.

― kirsten (kirsten), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

If not for the capitalization and the fact that there are no drive thrus in 99% of the city I would have sworn this was Alex in NYC.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't get me started on drivers who constantly cut off my pedestrian self when I have the right of way (and am not even being a pushy pedestrain or anything). I hope I never act on any of my homicidal fantasies about this. Between my home and my work, there is a parking-lot that people cut through, coming out what is only supposed to be an entrance at high speeds, often not bothering to look for pedestrians. I worry every time I see children walking by themselves around parking garage exits. Maybe drivers are looking for pedestrians more often than I realize, but it certainly doesn't seem like it.

Also, SUV drivers seem especially bad about these things, as though they all think they are tank commandos.

― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I would rather get run over by a trashy McDonald's drive-thru asshole than one of the horrible women who drive around the parking lot of the bakery where I work in their nasty BMW SUV-things, acting like they're the busiest, most important people in the world, when all they have to do all day is yoga and drinking. One of them hit a guy from work while he was taking out the garbage once, and she didn't even stop...just flipped him off and went and parked like five yards away. I would have gone and dumped the whole garbage bag on her car, but some I guess some people are more understanding than I am.

― kirsten (kirsten), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I crossed the street at a four-way stop sign yesterday. I waited for one vehicle (an SUV, I think) to come from the opposing direction, and then I started walking. The vehicle behind the first one kept coming, somewhat slowly, but steadily. I kept walking. If I had been walking at my normal speed, the car (another SUV) and me would have made contact. Too many drivers think that a stop sign means they only have to wait for opposing traffic, not pedestrians.

x-post:

See, I don't know what I'd do if something like that happened to me. I was carrying an empty bottle (not booze!) in my hand yesterday when that stop sign thing happened and I was imagining smashing the bottle so I could use it as a jagged edged weapon.

― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

haha i would have probably broken my fists against the windshield

bad driving really really REALLY gets me. sometimes i'll be driving with my mother and she'll take like four minutes to merge across two or three lanes. FOR GOD SAKES HURRY UP OR YOU'RE GOING TO GET US KILLED, WOMAN.

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 16 May 2005 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

woman drivers!

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 16 May 2005 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd have fallen on the ground writhing in pain and sued the cunt.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 16 May 2005 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.circlecity.co.uk/picture_jokes/wdrivers.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 16 May 2005 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, I hate to stereotype women drivers, but I can assert that the drivers in the parking lot during the day are women, because none of the women in the neighborhood work. In fact, many of them have never worked. They are, for the most part, women in their early- to mid-thirties who are married to doctors and have young children and full-time nannies.

― kirsten (kirsten), Monday, 16 May 2005 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

This is why I have to wonder just what it is they DO that is so urgent that they need to run over my coworkers.

― kirsten (kirsten), Monday, 16 May 2005 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

They're needin' their fascist groove thing.

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 16 May 2005 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

'Volunteer work' from what I can tell. (Work = vodka gimlet lunches)

Last summer/fall/winter/ moving into this spring (urgh), we built an addition for some middle-aged yuppies. Wifey was pilled up every morning ('back pain'), couldn't get out of bed before 10am to move her fucking Suburban out of the driveway so people could get to the back and work. She was a treat.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 16 May 2005 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

They're going to be LATE for their Brazilian waxing appointments!

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 16 May 2005 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

They're needin' their fascist groove thing.
I'm calling you out, Monster Mussolini!
I'm calling you out, Mister Adolf Hitler!
I'm calling you out, Fraulein Unity Mitford!
I'm calling you out! I'm calling you out!

― ... And suddenly Ian Riese-Moraine is a naked man saying, 'Volvo! Volvo!' (Easte, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Weird how people complain about female drivers and yet it's the male ones that frighten me most.

― ... And suddenly Ian Riese-Moraine is a naked man saying, 'Volvo! Volvo!' (Easte, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

The male ones are the ones who will get out of their cars and attack in a fit of rage! I only wish I were exagerating... They're also the ones who do a lot of yelling at pedestrians for, y'know, being there. Fuckwits.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

That said, my pedestrian rage has died down since first moving to Montreal. Before I was very wtf! I have the right of way! I am a pedestrian crossing the street on a green light! Now it's like, meh, so I have make eye contact with drivers inching into the crosswalk so that they will stop less than 3 inches from my shins, and, hey whatever, I have to shoulder check as I walk across the street to make sure no one turns right into me. It's amazing how we adapt.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I've lived in Phikadelphia since 1989 and I still have not adapted to the way people drive.

― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

the one time i actually acted on pedestrian rage, the offending driver pulled over to get out and give chase* so i will not be doing that again. for all of its traffic faults new york isn't that bad for pedestrians, presumably because there are so many of them (and so many are feisty). parking garage entrance/exits were really the only places that made me nervous. it was around my parents' house, a land overrun with the bmw suv driving ladies that kirsten describes or else 90yr old men in boat-sized baby blue cadillacs with florida plates, that i really hated to walk.

*at least that's what it looked like, as i ran away at top speed

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 10:22 (twenty-one years ago)

In the US, pedestrians just have to put a foot in the road, anywhere, and the driver not only has to accomodate them, but doesn't even honk or gesticulate or anything! It's amazing!

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:01 (twenty-one years ago)

In Seattle, parking lots have to flash a bright blinking white light for cars exiting garages in downtown, as a warning to pedestrians while playing the following pre-recorded message.

"WARNING!"

"A CAR IS APPROACHING!"

"WARNING! A CAR IS APPROACHING!"

It actually ends up embarrassing the driver more than the pedestrian.

None exist for outside drive though restaurants yet. Maybe that's the "next phase." That Jack In The Box on Broadway in Capitol Hill has a lot to answer for, surely, as far as dunderheaded drivers.

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

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