Holy shit you spent some time pulling this together. I hope you did it on your employer’s dime.

Giggle. If it helps today I will call you The King of Geneva! I haven’t a trumpet but I can turn my guitar amp up to eleven! ☮️

What will you play? Crosstown Traffic by Jimi Hendrix?

How about, I can’t drive 55?

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But isn’t it the law that drivers have to stop at those crosswalks for pedestrians or bikers?

I’m sure it is, but at the same time, the point is that if you’re going to stop, don’t make it a split second decision. Like slamming on your brakes in front of a semi, you won’t win every time.

I might be misinterpreting it but it sounds like only when they’re in the crosswalk.

true!

I hate that crosswalk of certain doom. Maybe a little bridge should go over it. Or it could be re-routed to coincide with the stop light intersection. I wish I had a pool.

My kids and I cross that spot all the time. We don’t wave people to stop or expect it but people are nice enough to do so

This made my day! I haven’t driven in 15 years and could rant for hours about how the drivers in this town never stop at the line and constantly block crosswalks! People will literally see me riding down the sidewalk and block the cross walk anyway….

A STOP sign is posted on the east and west side of the bike path that crosses Rt 25. That would indicate to me whoever is using the bike path is to stop for oncoming traffic.
Illinois law states you are to stop for someone in the crosswalk. Very confusing!

TLDR; Always stop for bikers and walkers in the crosswalk. Problem solved. Probably…because TLDR

Well, that wasn’t really my TLDR but I’ll allow it.

I’ll admit to a short attention span, but that was similar to a short novel in social media terms, don’t you agree?

I do agree 😊 but my TLDR is more along the lines of “it’s okay to be agitated when people step on our toes.”

Ah, touche.

One second of distraction is all it takes. Hell I was reaching for cheeto the other day on a drive through Canada. Next second I had two wheels on the gravel shoulder scaring the piss out of me. Life is fun.

I gave my cat a Cheeto once. She ran off with it in her mouth like a stubby little orange cigar.

The Cheeto made me do it!

Slow down and drive defensive.

Some one pissed in your Cheerios this morning huh? Also a lot of cyclists commute in “racing gear” and change at work. But the car shouldn’t have locked up the breaks but if you had to slam on yours too it means you were following too close.

> it means you were following too close
Not necessarily.

I loved your post…you crack me up! #reallifeishilarious