morning jog
yup i did another 10km today, this time in 50 minutes flat. (ok, excluding short breaks in between the bedok reservoir rounds)
since david chan (who's my moral compass when it comes to jaywalking) is away in italy, i'll have to rant here. i haven't showered yet but i'm ranting now cos i'm fuck-pissed at the fuckwit drivers of bedok north.
ok an explanation is in order: to get to my 10km route i have to cross one road. in the morning ~6:45 when i get out of the house i can usually get a break in the traffic to safely jaywalk across without stopping a whole line of cars. so i cross intact and the cars zoom by happily without getting stopped by one jogger.
now when i come back from the 10km i'm pretty knackered as normal people would tend to be, and this is usually about 8:20 (cos i take a slow walk back from the reservoir). unfortunately this is also peak traffic and i can't ever cross without getting the green man.
so i pressed the traffic light button. at least i had the decency to wait for one side of the road to clear right? but this arsewipe takes it into his fucking brain to honk me as i ran across. i mean, i don't run across the road to taunt him, i run across so that he gets a chance to demonstrate his lack of moral scruples by beating the light and crossing anyway. but he HONKS me. demonstrating he's nothing more than a law-abiding fuckwit. who lives by, if i'm not mistaken, stage four in kohlberg's moral taxonomy.
fucking hell. i mean, yeah ok i could have waited 15 minutes for traffic to clear on both sides before crossing, but which nutter does that? and besides DC my jaywalking moral compass never ever jaywalks, i'm told =D
in a manner of speaking yeah you could say i infringed upon his right to cross a pedestrian crossing without getting stopped. but on the other hand if he didn't stop he would have infringed upon MY right to cross the road without getting run down. what blooming nerve. it's not even like he could have been getting his pregnant wife or aged parent to hospital for a delivery or a hip replacement, it was the wrong side of the road to get to changi hospital anyway.
weighing things up i think both law and morality are on my side when i press the traffic light to cross the blinking road, as long as i wait until the moment when i stop as few cars as is humanly possible. and i think he was utterly unjustified in honking at me. what do you guys think?
tt's why i hate road crossings on the park connectors.
since david chan (who's my moral compass when it comes to jaywalking) is away in italy, i'll have to rant here. i haven't showered yet but i'm ranting now cos i'm fuck-pissed at the fuckwit drivers of bedok north.
ok an explanation is in order: to get to my 10km route i have to cross one road. in the morning ~6:45 when i get out of the house i can usually get a break in the traffic to safely jaywalk across without stopping a whole line of cars. so i cross intact and the cars zoom by happily without getting stopped by one jogger.
now when i come back from the 10km i'm pretty knackered as normal people would tend to be, and this is usually about 8:20 (cos i take a slow walk back from the reservoir). unfortunately this is also peak traffic and i can't ever cross without getting the green man.
so i pressed the traffic light button. at least i had the decency to wait for one side of the road to clear right? but this arsewipe takes it into his fucking brain to honk me as i ran across. i mean, i don't run across the road to taunt him, i run across so that he gets a chance to demonstrate his lack of moral scruples by beating the light and crossing anyway. but he HONKS me. demonstrating he's nothing more than a law-abiding fuckwit. who lives by, if i'm not mistaken, stage four in kohlberg's moral taxonomy.
fucking hell. i mean, yeah ok i could have waited 15 minutes for traffic to clear on both sides before crossing, but which nutter does that? and besides DC my jaywalking moral compass never ever jaywalks, i'm told =D
in a manner of speaking yeah you could say i infringed upon his right to cross a pedestrian crossing without getting stopped. but on the other hand if he didn't stop he would have infringed upon MY right to cross the road without getting run down. what blooming nerve. it's not even like he could have been getting his pregnant wife or aged parent to hospital for a delivery or a hip replacement, it was the wrong side of the road to get to changi hospital anyway.
weighing things up i think both law and morality are on my side when i press the traffic light to cross the blinking road, as long as i wait until the moment when i stop as few cars as is humanly possible. and i think he was utterly unjustified in honking at me. what do you guys think?
tt's why i hate road crossings on the park connectors.
Labels: Life
posted by Unknown at
9:06 am
5 Comments:
I don't quite get what happened...
? Press traffic light - still red - no cars - cross - car on the opposite side HONKS?
Hmm... maybe the person honked not to warn you but to remind you that the light was still red. He might have thought that 'this jogger forgot the light.. let me wake him up in case he got run down by a car'?
That reminds me of something I have always thought about: there should be two types of car horns - an angry and a polite one - so that people do not misinterpret. Haha ;)
nono as in it was green man alr. he honked cos he was pissed that he (and a few other cars) got stopped just so that one person could cross.
um sorry but still the first thing i have to say about your rant is dude you wake up at 6.45 in the holidays? made of win ._. i think i...sleep closer to 6.45.
um if it was the green man already then he shouldn't have honked i guess. but um forgive and forget i say peace-promotingly. or forget, anyway.
Then you should have taken your time to walk slower - perhaps even pause in front of him - before running to the other side when light almost turns red. :D
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