Why

[tulip]

Thanks, sfa. I don't have kids, but I do appreciate what they can teach us about what's important, and what's not important.

There's nothing wrong with slowing down for a few minutes during our oh-so-busy-and-important days.

[indysteel]

Kids' slowness I can handle, but adults who creep along while crossing the streets in downtown Indy make my blood pressure rise. Lordy, some people walk sooooooo slowly. It's not that I think I have some greater right to the road as a driver, but when I'm walking across a busy street, I try not to dawdle out of courtesy to drivers. And if I don't have time to get across before the light changes, I wait (most of our intersections offer a countdown).

[Blueberry]

Kids' slowness I can handle, but adults who creep along while crossing the streets in downtown Indy make my blood pressure rise. Lordy, some people walk sooooooo slowly. It's not that I think I have some greater right to the road as a driver, but when I'm walking across a busy street, I try not to dawdle out of courtesy to drivers. And if I don't have time to get across before the light changes, I wait (most of our intersections offer a countdown).

Or the adults that cross *against* a do not walk sign who take their time, and then give an obscene gesture to cars who were (legitimately) trying to get through (but not in any way being threatening). I've observed this too many times as a pedestrian. If only all people could follow basic, common courtesy.

[Cataboo]

What drives me nuts is when there's a group of teenagers that make a show of walking very slowly down the middle of the road - knowing that they're doing it on purpose just to be annoying.