yeah, I do that. because I have right of way when I do it.
I had a driver yell at me once because in her incorrect opinion I had not checked for cross traffic. I was approaching a pedestrian crossing at a roundabout that is signed that drivers must yield to pedestrians. I knew she was approaching from my left, I heard her slowing down, and I quickly glanced to confirm that she was stopping. I did this without obviously turning my head. I stepped into the crosswalk without slowing down, and she took the time to roll her window down and yell at me that I need to look around or something, and then nearly hit something as she proceeded through the roundabout trying to roll her window back up.
I did everything just fine, she was just mad that she was too observant to notice me checking for traffic
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I do that. If I get to a crosswalk, I don’t stand and wait for cars to stop, I step into the road and make them stop, because thems the rules. I don’t do it while I’m staring at my phone though, because that’s dumb.
skidicarus@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
As I’ve heard one person say, “your right of way doesn’t matter if I run you over.” As a pedestrian, I always wait until I see the car slowing down before I step out in front of it.
thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I definitely agree with the sentiment, my top priority is to not get run over. I still walk confidently onto the crosswalk without pausing, while keeping a close eye on the approaching car so that I can get out of the way if they don’t stop.
My experience is that if you hesitate, way too many drivers will just floor it in front of you, while if you give the impression that they’ll hit you if they don’t stop, they’ll hit the breaks.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Exactly. I drive and watch people hover on the sidewalk, clearly intending to enter the crosswalk, but not making that move. I stop whenever I even so much as think someone might cross. I stop and sometimes they turn instead of crossing. Whatever, doesn’t matter, it’s two seconds. But it seems like everyone else on the road can’t be bothered.
And so it’s because of that that I just walk into the road. And I should say into the road, but not into the travel lane, per se, because I don’t actually want to get hit, I got kids, and it would be a stupid funeral if “Dad died doing what he loved, being an idiot.”
NABDad@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I do this, but only if I can see their eyes.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Posted from a hospital bed.