To the driver that honked at me while I used the crosswalk while I had right-of-way, I hope you stub your toe every day for the rest of your life
@wallhackio someone did that to me too because I wasn't running across the crosswalk given that I was carrying like 20 lbs of shit
@cam maybe cars were a mistake
@wallhackio living here also makes me think bikes were a mistake because I've been nearly mowed down by a cyclist as a pedestrian about 5 times already
@cam I've never had any experience like this with a cyclist so I wonder if this is just a California thing
@wallhackio me neither, in NC cyclists were normal. I mean sometimes people would ride on the sidewalk instead of the road which was annoying but they didn't just mow people down and if there were pedestrians in front of them they'd slow down and weave around them carefully
@wallhackio they just don't stop at any of the stop signs when they're riding in the road. at all. even if there's a pedestrian at the crosswalk beyond the stop sign. they also just whip out across intersections at like 15 mph and if you're driving you literally cannot see them fast enough to react to them
@wallhackio I genuinely think I've seen a bike stop at a stop sign maybe like 10 times total and I see a million bikes a day here
@wallhackio I don't bike because someone got hit by a car like 5 seconds from where I live right after I moved here. it was so bad that people on the reddit for my city were like "don't drive on X street right now there's literally chunks of human flesh and blood on the side of the road" don't know who was at fault because the drivers and cyclists here are all insane
@wallhackio like literally "someone else seeing the situation and honking and I had to straight up dodge the car"
@wallhackio I almost got run over in that intersection like 5 times during grad school