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Old 04-22-2013, 06:28 PM
 
Location: The canyon (with my pistols and knife)
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Old 04-22-2013, 07:39 PM
 
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Old 04-22-2013, 07:42 PM
 
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Speaking of stupidity, I've been wondering something stupid lately. All of the birds are back in town making crazy noise in my yard. When they all head south, it must be very noisy down there in the winter with all the birds living together in the warmer states. I wonder if they have factions---the locals and the newcomers.
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Old 06-01-2013, 06:37 AM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank some people on this sub-forum for changing one of my bad driving habits---driving around jaywalkers instead of just yielding to them. Recently I've changed my tune. While I once thought yielding to jaywalkers would just encourage them to jaywalk more in the future I've noticed that if I just stop and wave them across I only lose a few seconds, and knowing I did a good deed more than makes up for the inconvenience to my schedule.

I'm an East Coast boy born and bred, and we're a bit more fast-paced due to the higher population density. I'm still adjusting to the slower pace of life here, and I'm really starting to like it more as I become more relaxed (or maybe I'm just getting older?!)
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Old 06-01-2013, 11:29 AM
 
Location: Crafton via San Francisco
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I'm really starting to like it more as I become more relaxed (or maybe I'm just getting older?!)
Probably a little of both. Wait till you get to be my age...
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Old 06-03-2013, 06:13 AM
 
Location: Currently living in Reddit
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I'm an East Coast boy born and bred, and we're a bit more fast-paced due to the higher population density. I'm still adjusting to the slower pace of life here, and I'm really starting to like it more as I become more relaxed (or maybe I'm just getting older?!)
I'll vote with "getting older".

As some of you know, I'm in CT for a few weeks. So I want to introduce my nephew to a dive burger joint I used to love way back when (Greasy Nicks, if you're a fan). Nephew says he wants to drive. He's flying down I95 trying to do 80 in 3rd lane while tailgating a guy in front and cursing about stupid drivers. It's maybe a little after PM rush hour.

I simply smh and say to him, "You're in Westchester County on I95 doing 70+ in a 55mph zone. Stop whining and take your wins when you get them."
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Old 06-03-2013, 07:24 AM
 
Location: Philly
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I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank some people on this sub-forum for changing one of my bad driving habits---driving around jaywalkers instead of just yielding to them. Recently I've changed my tune. While I once thought yielding to jaywalkers would just encourage them to jaywalk more in the future I've noticed that if I just stop and wave them across I only lose a few seconds, and knowing I did a good deed more than makes up for the inconvenience to my schedule.

I'm an East Coast boy born and bred, and we're a bit more fast-paced due to the higher population density. I'm still adjusting to the slower pace of life here, and I'm really starting to like it more as I become more relaxed (or maybe I'm just getting older?!)
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According to recent research, the earliest use of the word jaywalker in print was in the Chicago Tribune in 1909. (The earliest citation in the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1917.) The term's dissemination was due in part to a deliberate effort by promoters of automobiles, such as local auto clubs and dealers, to redefine streets as places where pedestrians do not belong...Originally, the legal rule was that "all persons have an equal right in the highway, and that in exercising the right each shall take due care not to injure other users of the way."[5] In time, however, streets became the province of motorized traffic, both practically and legally. Automobile interests in the USA took up the cause of labeling and scorning jaywalkers in the 1910s and early 1920s; a counter-campaign to name (and disapprove of) "jay drivers" failed
Jaywalking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I've recently realized that jaywalking is simply a return to a time streets were shared. it's interesting, to me at least, that the old rule required you to think about the other person while the new rules gives you license to ignore the other person.
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Old 06-03-2013, 07:27 AM
 
Location: Virginia
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"a counter-campaign to name (and disapprove of) "jay drivers" failed"
LOL LOL yet another campaign you wish had hit during the mass media era... can you imagine the tv ads?
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Old 06-03-2013, 08:39 PM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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Ugh! Just had my first brush with road rage on our local roadways tonight in a very long time. Scott R. Priester would be proud. While driving on the Parkway East INbound in the right-most lane I had just passed the Glenwood exit and was approaching the exit ramp to the Boulevard of the Allies inbound. Just before the exit a guy in an older sedan flew in front of me (no blinker) and nearly took out my front bumper to exit. I blared my horn, and he flipped me off. While I may have otherwise just muttered angrily to myself I was feeling upset from a death in the family and took this to be a "challenge" as I gunned it up the offramp and began to tailgate him. When we got onto the Boulevard of the Allies we ended up in gridlock beside each other. I yelled out the window "Do you know what a blinker is?", and he replied to me with a nasty gay slur that rhymes with maggot (I guess my new "hipster" car looks "gay" to people?) I screamed profanities back at him, and we began to become very heated, honking and screaming at each other, until he veered off onto Jumonville Street into Uptown. He was a 50-something white male with a heavy "yinzer" accent, and I'm guessing he was going to South Side via the Birmingham Bridge.

Friends have chided me for this and have advised me to apply for a permit to carry. If future situations like this arise I probably should so I can defend myself if necessary. Pittsburgh will be a much better place when people like him fully die off. He's probably the same type of guy who tried starting a fight with me in an argument over a "personal" public on-street parking space on Harcum Way in South Side last year when I was making a delivery. These types of people need to move out of the city ASAP so it can realize its fullest potential.
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Old 06-03-2013, 08:51 PM
 
Location: Umbrosa Regio
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My response to crazy drivers is to just let them be crazy and put myself in a position where they can least likely do me harm. Letting myself get angry at them only succeeds at letting them have power over me and my mood. If you're prone to road rage, I think it would be a better idea to pursue avenues of de-escalation, and carrying around a gun accomplishes the exact opposite.
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