Thursday May 12, 2005
For some reason the date seems significant. May 12th. All day I've been expecting the light to go on, but I'm still in the dark. Oh well...
More work took place on the backyard project today. They tell me they're all finished with pounding on things. As much as I'd like to, I don't quite believe that.
I *do* believe tickets should be given to clueless people who block the sidewalks with their cars and then move them backwards without looking behind them. I had a small heart attack as I watched the bumper of a car come towards me just after I'd taken a step into the space behind it. The driver had been intently watching a vehicle in front of hers jockeying to gain egress from the gridlock that the gas bar had become. I was pretty sure she was trying to make life easier for the other guy, but she still should have looked back first. It was the last leg of my walk, I was tired and carrying two sacs of food. Not moving particularly quickly, so no reason to say she didn't have time to notice me.
The car stopped before it and I came into contact but I was startled and then pissed and finally concerned that the driver not try to move again until I was safely past. So I kicked the back bumper to get her attention. When she did turn to look, I frowned at her and raised my arms in a questioning gesture.
I rounded the corner to head north on Parkdale, and by the time I was across from the pumps, she'd reached one and gotten out. When I looked at her and she shouted her query "Have you got a problem, lady?". I shouted back. Oh yeah... I said I did have a problem - the fact that she'd started backing up just as I was walking behind her car. She flat out denied that she'd backed up. I rephrased and said "Your car moved backwards." (I know it sounds like I'm ready for the retirement home, but another pedestrian coming towards me at the time saw it, and shook his head. The car moving that is, not the verbal exchange.)
I've learned my lesson. I'm taking the long way around that intersection just to avoid useless drivers at the gas station.
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