some people...

[lavandarlizard2]

Some people just appall me. I was out today running a couple of close-in errands. On the way home, I stopped for the light at our big intersection (so-called because the rail tracks run parallel to the boulevard and the cross street has a dedicated right-turn lane, so you really have to pay attention) while the other side of the street got their left-turn arrow. A guy in a wheel chair was crossing (he started across with the light, but it's a wide intersection and he was under his own power so not exactly zipping) and he reached my side of the intersection (three lanes plus the right-turn lane) about the same time our light turned green. So me and the guy next to me just sit there waiting on him. No big deal; I'm not in a hurry and pedestrians (and wheelchairs) have the right-of-way. Took the guy about six seconds to finish crossing and I could tell he was trying to hurry, but neither of us were moving until he actually reached the sidewalk. Like I said, no biggy.

Guy behind us starts freaking out and leaning on his horn like a damn fuckwit. We ignored him and he make a perfect twat of himself until we started moving.

Seriously, dude? WTF is wrong with you?! >_<

And then he had to roar past us up the road when he had the chance, barreling through a residential area like he was John Force at Pomona. >_< I would so like to be able to melt the engines of those assholes. *sigh*

Anyway, just needed to blow that off. >_>

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[turnippatch.livejournal.com]

Ugh, my old dude had a motorized wheelchair and a freaking horn attached to it, and he wasn't afraid to use it.  I was halfway out of a driveway of a parking lot, looking for oncoming traffic to see if it was okay to turn right, when I hear this horn honking at me and turn to see this grumpy old dude in his wheelchair glaring at me from the sidewalk.  Honestly, I don't remember if I didn't see him at all, or saw him but thought he was far enough away that it didn't matter (didn't realize he was motor-powered and therefore fast).  I backed up to clear the way for him (though I say, if he had just waited another two seconds, I would have just turned out and not been in his way anymore) and then the guy wheels in front of me, glaring at me the whole time, pulls up to my window, and gestures for me to roll my window down.  Wtf.  Okay, so I crack my window open, and then he informs me grumpily that this is a sidewalk and sidewalks are not meant to be blocked by cars.  I bite my tongue, because I'm not really certain what I'm doing in this situation.  Then he tells me to go back to Japan before turning and motoring away.  WTF.  I don't remember if he was wearing a cap with an army badge on it, or if I just imagine it in retrospect, but boy did that guy have a chip on his shoulder.  (and let's not even mention the fact that, if he hates asians, boy was he in the wrong neighborhood...)

[lavendarlizard.livejournal.com]

O_o Oh my. A gentleman with Issues. Yuck. >.< There are some of those around here and I find them curious for the same reason. If you don't like people who look unlike your white-bread self, what are you doing in a heavily military area with an inexhaustible supply of non-white-bread folks? wtf.

Was it an actual wheelchair or one of those teabagger limos? >_> I about got run over by one of those in Walmart last week. *sigh*

[turnippatch.livejournal.com]

My guess is that the old dude got stuck living with his kid or something, so he didn't exactly get a choice. =p

You mean like, joystick-controlled vs... John Deere lawnmower?  I think it was an 'actual' wheelchair, but the way those things zip along, it's not too hard to get run over by one of them, too.

[lavendarlizard.livejournal.com]

Those scooter things are the ones that tick me off, like the handicapped shopping things at the grocery or big box stores. >.< I mean, if a person needs something to get around, no big deal, but at least try to watch where you're going while doing it. I'd like to not need one for a while longer. O.o