The following is what I said to the office worker who berated me after he’d decided to walk directly across my path this evening, as I was pushing a trolley loaded with boxes through pedestrian peak traffic:
“I was watching where I was going. It’s lucky for you that I was.”
After all, it wouldn’t have been my ankles getting broken if I hadn’t seen him and reacted in time. Nope.
I mean, come on, if you’ve spent five minutes in a city you know the deal - respect the flow of traffic, car and foot, and if you choose to interrupt it either have a good reason or be prepared to take the consequences (and either way, be careful). This oaf saw a stream of people walking from a pedestrian crossing, and was, himself, heading towards another crossing which was blocked by vehicle traffic. The polite and expedient thing to do would be for him to stand and wait until everyone had exited the active crossing, yet he impatiently (and pointlessly) chose to leap into the small gap before me - which I respectfully leave between me and the next person whenever I’m pushing the trolley, with an ankle-height pointy end, through a moving crowd - causing me to slam the brakes (i.e. my legs and arms) and jerk the trolley back. For him to then shout that I should “Watch where (I’m) going,” speaks of an obliviously arrogant self confidence, and is exactly the kind of ego that makes me despair at the usefulness of notions such as “cooperative society.” Someone has to tell people like him they’re idiots, or they’ll pass it on to their children as carelessly as they inflict it upon the world around them. Luckily for today’s throwback, I was wearing company livery and thus remained civil.
Some folks invite injury, and only defy natural selection because other people take action to avoid hurting them. As I once read on a t-shirt: “Some people are only alive because it’s illegal to kill them.” I suppose I should be grateful, because I suck at fighting, but that doesn’t stop me from resenting the random stupidity that washes through my senses every day. It just makes me more annoyed that we can still be such fucking stupid animals, after so many aeons of evolution. Don’t get me started on when I catch myself out.
Ook? Ook ook, OOOK!
Ook.
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SWEAR score: somewhere between 1 and 2. Because dicks like him also drive cars, and lead nations, too.
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(Trolley photo linked from the website of the good folks at Castle Forklifts. If you’re looking for any kind of mechanical lifting/lugging conveyance, their range appears unbeatable.)
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