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By: The Wonderfulness of American Drivers « O’Ceallaigh & The Quill

The Wonderfulness of American Drivers « O’Ceallaigh & The Quill — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:55:08 +0000

[...] Wonderfulness of American Drivers I was going to post on a completely different topic, but Quilly and Thom have been getting into it over the foibles of drivers and pedestrians here in Paradise (a [...]

By: ScuttleButtMoTV » Red, Yellow, Green

ScuttleButtMoTV » Red, Yellow, Green — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:01:17 +0000

[...] people get what that means. Quilly, Quilly’s Pacific … Paradise?, sort of beat me to the punch on this, but I want to add to the road [...]

By: Sandi McBride

Sandi McBride — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:24:20 +0000

Not just in Hawaii do people think that the right of way means them in their wheel-less condition! Most of our pedestrians who are hit by cars, trucks motorbikes and even mopeds, are found at fault…unfortunately most are in no condition to accept the summons that is “summarily” issued!
Congrats on Post of the Day mention!
Sandi

By: Jientje

Jientje — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:01:08 +0000

A cell phone and an Ipod.
Deadly.

By: Alice

Alice — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 07:10:54 +0000

I hate to be negative, yet I do like to be honest… so here I go. I think this new generation is even stupider than the last, and they are pretty bad. The gene pool is getting very shallow. Scary.

By: The Mumma

The Mumma — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 06:17:42 +0000

Ever read Gridlock by Ben Elton? One of the main characters was rendered paraplegic right at the start of the book by a driver that did exactly what this driver did. The character in the book, however, was crossing at a designated crossing and had to stop to pick up her books which had been scattered.

By: Quilly

Quilly — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 09:57:30 +0000

Silver — i agree.

Nessa — perhaps the parents have a large insurance policy on the child ….

Melli — and when drivers weren’t in such a danged awful hurry they wer willing to wait. Even I realize it isn’t ALL the pedestrian’s fault.

Juliana — couldn’t care less whether or not the poedestrians watched the traffic. I just wish they’d ignore the traffic from the sidewalks and the crosswalks and stay out of the middle of the street!

Bill — yeah,, I get that edge of the curb thing here, too. Someday one of them will lose a body part to a side view mirror.

Amoeba — the voice in your head is your mother? Oh boy. I think I’m glad I didn’t have one of those! (Mothers the voice is there. It sounds a lot like my sister, Caryl).

Thom — very likely.

Jill — all poster children for what happens when one fails to pay attention.

Doug — learned stupidity. Cool. I want some.

Carletta — yes, and some of them get laid out.

Dr. John — likely true.

Betty — I thought I saw God’s hand scootch the kid over just a bit as that car skidded to a stop.

Lisa — I have no problem stopping for pedestrians in crosswalks. I expect to find them there. I have a big problem with folks who just step off the curb in the middle of the street while traffic is flowing.

Jeff — the gene pool needs more chlorine.

By: Jeff B

Jeff B — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:07:33 +0000

The abundance of clueless people never ceases to amaze me.

By: Intricategirl

Intricategirl — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:19:53 +0000

I’ll be the first one to admit it, I’ve got no problem walking out into traffic. BUT, let me explain. The people in my neighborhood do not deserve drivers licenses. Every one of them sitting in their massive SUV’s, creating 4-5 lanes out of two, going well over the speed limit, and jockeying for the next available spot so their darling little spawn doesn’t have to walk more than three feet to the door. And the crosswalk is right by the turn for where they drop their kids off.

Given that this is an elementary school and some kid is going to get killed one of these days because some idiot has never heard that pedestrians have the right of way and school crosswalks trump EVERYTHING else, I’m not backing down. I have had someone inch forward, threatening to run me over. I turned my umbrella towards their car and made it very clear that I would be happy to shove it in their radiator for them. ‘Cause if some jerk is going to try and run me over in their Escalade, they’d better know I’m damn good at faking an injury.

Now, I know this isn’t exactly the same thing. I don’t walk with a cell phone because it takes away from the dirty looks I can give them. And if I was downtown- forget it. But in a school crosswalk, yeah, I’m walking. And I don’t care who’s coming at me.

By: bettygram

bettygram — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:00:04 +0000

That young person was so lucky or has a great guardian angel. We had a Woman in a wheel chair killed as she crossed the road. The driver did not see her because of the sun in his eyes.

By: Dr. John

Dr. John — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:23:53 +0000

It’s those darn cell phones. I think they are a terrorist weapon designed to get us to destroy ourselves.

By: Carletta

Carletta — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:14:40 +0000

It would appear the tourists come and get a little too laid back in paradise.

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:40:29 +0000

If it is common, it must be adaptive.

By: Jill

Jill — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:21:58 +0000

Let’s see, birds can bring down a plane, a texting mom can tie up traffic and a pedestrian listening to his ipod never hears the brakes squeal. And so it goes…

By: Thom

Thom — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:37:53 +0000

Ah ha…so it was you I saw in Waikiki. &^%$&^%#^%$@^@#@#$ is all I saw coming out of the car ROFLMAO!!!