If you’re ever stuck with a lazy jaywalker, a great activity (especially if your vehicle happens to be crazy loud) is to throw it in neutral and rev the engine so it sounds like you’re moving at them. They freak out and jump and mile and then start cursing and waving, even the traffic control officers are laughing at them.

It’s enough that there are many crosswalks relatively close to each other and that no one can cross at the same time, making you have to sit in traffic enduring beeping horns behind you and people trying to go around you with no cops to catch it. I’m also not going to stop for every person who isn’t be safe when it comes to crossing the street. I certainly wouldn’t cross where there wasn’t a crosswalk. I can barely get cars to stop for me when I’m in one!

I guess what I’m trying to say is, I’m not so sure I believe that pedestrians get the right of way at all times. They may think they do but unless you’re following the rules, it’s fair game for everyone.

P.S. Get off your phones, hold on to your kids and look both ways before darting into the road, even in a crosswalk. Not everyone’s paying attention.

But it seems like when they decide to jay walk its always on a lark. As in, the were hiding between two giant trucks (so to be invisible to passing cars) and then just decide to hop into the street while texting and trying to find their sunglasses (instead of looking for passing death machines) in their giant bags.

I swear a woman did exactly this to me WHILE PUSHING HER BABY IN A STROLLER.