OKAY, YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!
I wear on my sweater a long orange tag with the words "Pedestrians have rights" on it. It's a part of a program called the Orange Initiative, here at the University of Utah. I don't go here, but I hang out at the University alot.
The reason I wrote what I wrote is that I often walk, about six or eight miles a day. When I try to cross some streets, I get mad and fearful at the same time - the signal says I can walk, but the cars "posture" or the way people run their cars says "Get out of my way". Often the people's faces tell the same tale.
I am NOT in someone's way. Whoever said it was "Your" way was wrong! Noone owns the right to go wherever they want, whenever they want, regardless of other cars and people - not in a city like the one I live in.
So, I turn and watch and the drivers threaten, sometimes not meaning to I know, but nonetheless threaten to run me over. There's a reason pedestrians have the right to cross before cars. Pedestrians are slower, and more fragile. And we still have the right, despite not having a car or currently being in a car, to CROSS THE STREET WITHOUT BEING THREATENED!
Okay, end of rant - thanks for reading, I feel better now.
