http://therudehamptons.com/2010/09/01/honk-if-you-like-the-bird-in-sag-harbor/ Share your rude Hamptons experience with us Sat, 19 May 2012 00:08:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://therudehamptons.com/2010/09/01/honk-if-you-like-the-bird-in-sag-harbor/comment-page-1/#comment-1881 L Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:55:15 +0000 http://therudehamptons.com/?p=343#comment-1881 I go to the gym in Sag Harbor just about every day and parking on Bay Street is a challenge. Pull over and slow down to wait as a car leaves its spot and get the finger, honked at, and worse. Very little helps. A polite, friendly response doesn't work. Reminds me of the experiment you study in Psych 100. Too many mice in a small place and they start biting each others' tails. I go to the gym in Sag Harbor just about every day and parking on Bay Street is a challenge. Pull over and slow down to wait as a car leaves its spot and get the finger, honked at, and worse. Very little helps. A polite, friendly response doesn’t work. Reminds me of the experiment you study in Psych 100. Too many mice in a small place and they start biting each others’ tails.

]]> http://therudehamptons.com/2010/09/01/honk-if-you-like-the-bird-in-sag-harbor/comment-page-1/#comment-1879 Shop Girl Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:12:20 +0000 http://therudehamptons.com/?p=343#comment-1879 The anti-rude act of random kindness: a freshly hit racoon lies on Scuttlehole road. I cringe as cars and trucks narrowly miss squishing it before my eyes as I wait to make a turn. A lady in a truck stops dead in the street, puts on some gloves, and drags the poor animal to the side of the road and leaves. I followed her all the way to the Candy Kitchen where I roll down my window and tell her that was a beautiful thing she did. The anti-rude act of random kindness: a freshly hit racoon lies on Scuttlehole road. I cringe as cars and trucks narrowly miss squishing it before my eyes as I wait to make a turn. A lady in a truck stops dead in the street, puts on some gloves, and drags the poor animal to the side of the road and leaves. I followed her all the way to the Candy Kitchen where I roll down my window and tell her that was a beautiful thing she did.

]]> http://therudehamptons.com/2010/09/01/honk-if-you-like-the-bird-in-sag-harbor/comment-page-1/#comment-1878 Shop Girl Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:08:15 +0000 http://therudehamptons.com/?p=343#comment-1878 This reminds me of the time I was driving down the Sag Turnpike at night and stopped to let a duck waddle accross the road. I put on my emergency flasher and pulsed my brights so it was impossible not to know there was a reason I was stopped. The guy behind me flashed his brights and speed around me, narrowly missing the duck. What if it had been a person in the road or I was having a heart attack and needing help. I don't get it. That's why they call them emergency flashers. This reminds me of the time I was driving down the Sag Turnpike at night and stopped to let a duck waddle accross the road. I put on my emergency flasher and pulsed my brights so it was impossible not to know there was a reason I was stopped. The guy behind me flashed his brights and speed around me, narrowly missing the duck. What if it had been a person in the road or I was having a heart attack and needing help. I don’t get it. That’s why they call them emergency flashers.

]]> http://therudehamptons.com/2010/09/01/honk-if-you-like-the-bird-in-sag-harbor/comment-page-1/#comment-1877 Shop Girl Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:04:54 +0000 http://therudehamptons.com/?p=343#comment-1877 Thank you for bringing up the tailgating epidemic that is sweeping the area. I ask you....where is the fire? Is it worth the risk of expense and hassle and possible injury to life and limb to get to your destination (if you make it in one piece) a nano-second earlier? Thank you for bringing up the tailgating epidemic that is sweeping the area. I ask you….where is the fire? Is it worth the risk of expense and hassle and possible injury to life and limb to get to your destination (if you make it in one piece) a nano-second earlier?

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