Monday, January 29, 2007

It's the small things in life

This post is going to be mostly me complaining about people. But before I even start, I'd like to make sure that it is known that I am not directing these comments at anyone in particular. I also realize that I do many things that are very annoying. So I hope no one takes any offense from this post.

Ok so really this is just me complaining about poor drivers. As most of you may know, I do not have the ability or resources to drive myself from point A to any other point on the map. Therefore I must rely on public transit. Because of this, I have more time to notice things about drivers that I hate. First of all, people that don't actually stop at stop signs. Although, this doesn't really do much to many people, I still find it to be annoying to see people simply drive through a stop sign. IT SAYS STOP! NOT SLOW DOWN A BIT! Another thing I find particularily annoying is when people stop inside the X on the road. The X on the road means don't stop within this space. This is because the turn for other drivers is rather sharp and it's likely that if you are within this space you will be hit. So don't stop there. I notice this the most at the bus station. At one point on the bus trip home, the bus must take a fairly sharp left turn to exit the station. However, it cannot complete that turn most of the time because people are stopped within an X on the ground. Which makes it so the bus driver can't go anywhere whilst the person is sitting in their car thinking:

"AH DON'T HIT ME BUS!" or something along the lines of that.

What really confuses me about this part is the fact that once the driver of the car realizes that he will get hit by the bus unless he does something about it, they do absolutely nothing. They sit there... not moving while people in the bus and the bus driver are trying to tell them to back up. They sit there... Bah!

Well that's enough of that, and I apologize if anyone takes offense!

1 comment:

  1. Shocking but true, Ottawa drivers are far more crazier and likely to hit you than Montréal drivers. And this, coming from a Montrealer. I have almost been run over (while having the clear right of way ie. walking sign) twice.

    Are you talking about that intersection by Chapters and the gas station all the buses turn on to leave Dalhousie? That has to be the most ill-conceived intersection ever.

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