InsaneJournal

Current mood:

annoyed

Stop breathing my air...
Since I am unwilling to trade my first-born for a parking spot in the campus parking garage, I have to take a short walk daily -- perhaps a quarter-mile -- from my car to get to my classes. The requires me to trot across a busy street at least twice a day, but that's no biggie, as there is an automated crosswalk nearby that prevents me from having to play Frogger with the traffic. I appreciate this. Yes, it means that I may have to take two entire minutes out of my busy day as I wait for the lights to change. Perhaps this makes me one of those empty-headed sheeple who follow the "rules" so I don't end up in "traction" or spend my life as a "vegetable", but somehow I still don't mind.

The specimen I saw standing on the opposite side of the crosswalk today was apparently above such petty concerns as she strutted boldly out into the street beside her companion. Her time was valuable, you understand, and she couldn't be expected to wait for the lights to change, let alone a break in traffic. As she set foot onto the sidewalk where I stood, the only reaction she had to people standing up on their brakes to make sure that they didn't send her oblivious ass flying down the block was, "If they hit me, I'll sue them."

I tell you folks, that takes a special brand of stupid. This is the stupidity of the young who believe, despite all evidence to the contrary, that they are immortal. This is plainly evidenced by the fact that this walking waste of skin and air couldn't spare the three seconds to consider that if she -- a 140lb twit -- were to meet with a half-ton or more of metal traveling at 30 MPH, she would be lucky if a member of her family managed to sue on her behalf and used the resulting settlement to hire some full-time care to wipe her ass and change her drool cup. Worst case scenario, the money pays for her funeral. Not to mention that bleach-blonde entitlement whore was crossing against the light, so good luck winning that case.

Honestly, the only reason I wouldn't want to see how well that little experiment of hers would work out is that the driver of the vehicle wouldn't deserve to have his/her life wrecked in the process. As for the idiot, well, someone could probably use her parking space.