I am having a conflict with cars rather frequently at a particular intersection I have to cross whenever I walk home from work.
It's one of those
If you turn left, you have to yield to pedestrians. That's definitely a law everywhere here.
But left is 90% of the turns there and pedestrians are not frequent so drivers seem to have a blind spot for the walk signal, or worse, me.
Yesterday I was almost ran over and I yelled at some dumbass kid who I think didn't even see me. Today I just got honked at and they drove away before I could point out their mistake to them.
But I don't vent anger easily. When I get even the slightest bit angry I get bitter about it and it sticks with me and I hate anger it's awful.
I wish there was something I could do about this. I'm pretty sure that makes me sound old and crotchety. Oh well.
I definitely don't want to avoid walking to work. That just seems silly to me.
I want to just carry rocks with me and throw them at people, but, well.
Carrying a fog horn would make it safer for me at least but that's awkward and would probably just exacerbate my anger when I'd rather get rid of it.
Making a complaint to the town...is actually a fair idea. I could suggest making that left turn and the walk signal exclusive from each other, and I have a good case for it. I have no idea if making that suggestion is an easy process. It might not be. If I have to fucking go to a town council to do it, I probably won't. I have nothing against governance, but, like, you know, if just saying it privately makes me feel get-off-my-lawnish then saying it publicly sure would feel a lot more so. I mean, there's not many pedestrians crossing that crosswalk so it's a super niche problem and I don't like becoming the center of attention for something that doesn't affect most people who are forced to listen to me. That's accurate to my feelings too. Hell, more to the point, I just don't like being the center of attention at all.
But I guess I'll research and see if there's an easy way to make the suggestion or complaint. I can start griping about whippersnappers from behind my computer screen.
Oh, I found an email. It's a business email for the current "Public Works Director" and Public Works is responsible for "Coordinating street maintenance". I could probably send an email to this guy and he'd know where to send it if not him. I should do it. Cold-emailing someone is fine. Fuck social anxiety. I should do it.
To ease my social anxiety I also googled him and found a 2020 obituary for someone of the same name in the area. Dude might be dead and the staff directory is out of date.
Whatever. I'll just ignore it for now. Drink some beer and forget about it.
