Lunch, Foley
It seems my 60 minute daily lunch period always has some sort of incident, visual or thing that sticks out. Yesterday I saw short hair, skinny, balding, smoking bike riding guy. Yep he had his oversized button down short sleeve shirt, cigarette in hand and to mix things up, a Mountain Dew in the other hand.
Today as I was on my way over to the gym (which is in a strip mall) I was following behind a late 80’s Chevy Caprice that was pimped out with 22 inch rims and a jacked up suspension, of course it looked silly. Well anyway I am maybe 15 feet behind this car, going maybe 10 miles an hour. As we approached the entrance to Beal’s in the first parking spot to my right was an older woman that just finished putting her junk in the trunk and had the empty cart. I could tell she had intentions of walking the cart back to the door but assumed she would wait until we both passed since we were so close together. Well the Caprice passed before she closed the trunk but as soon as she did, she instantly made a move like she planned to just walk out in front of me, she never looked, she was just gonna go. Well depending on my mood sometimes I will just grin and bear a pushy pedestrian, sometimes I won’t.
I know as a pedestrian I never play chicken with an automobile. If a car is right there, I am certainly not going to stride right out, making the assumption that the driver is paying attention and not caring if he has to jam on the brakes to not hit me. Well this woman seemed to be one of those type of people that didn’t care.. So I stared her down and kept trucking along at 10mph, making her delay all of 3 seconds until she could pass. F her. After I passed I saw her giving me a look in the rear view mirror and shaking her head, I shook my head in return as I mumbled “Stupid old bitch…..” If you are stupid enough to think it’s ok to wedge yourself in between 2 cars so close together I could care less about being courteous to you as you obviously are extending no courtesy to me. If I was an rosy mood, perhaps I would have slammed on the brakes to let the old hag jump in front of me, but I wasn’t, so I didn’t. I have to admit if she was an attractive younger woman I probably would have reacted differently. It’s a knee jerk mental reaction that occurs before you can even think about it.
Stumbled across this on You Tube, funny, funny stuff (unless your name is Mark Foley) Here is more funny Foley You Tube stuff, this one has the full transcript. Damn they pump it out fast.