Having recently visited the emergency room for back pain, I may be more aware of the jolting and tensing of muscles that occurs every time I hit the brakes in my car. I am more painfully aware when moron pedestrians venture out into the street.
They casually stroll, not in a crosswalk, while I am forced to come to a screeching halt, therefore sending searing pain from my lower back, down to the bottoms of my feet.
Aside from the back pain, it is also very annoying. I’m just saying, if there isn’t a crosswalk where you need one, it’s not by accident. Find one nearest where you need to be, and please use it.
Dear pedestrians, please stop walking out in front of cars wherever you want. This is called jaywalking, not like the skit on the Tonight Show, but actually crossing a street where there is no crosswalk.
Jaywalking is illegal, folks, so stop doing it or I may consider being a Student Cadet and I will ticket every person I see without hesitation. So tell your jaywalking friends, too.
If you are a freshman at OSU this semester, let me clue you in. There are crosswalks just about everywhere you need to go. Take a drive down Monroe St. and you can experience them first hand.
There are four crosswalks at Morrill and Hester to get to the Student Union, and a fifth that takes you from the front of the Alumni Association building to the Journalism and Broadcast building.
Now, if you are walking to class and getting your exercise, then more power to you. However, I see people everyday almost get hit by cars that aren’t paying attention while exiting a parking lot. I will say that drivers should pay more attention, but in their defense, you’re not supposed to be crossing there in the first place.
Ten or 20 more feet down the sidewalk, depending on where you are, you’ll find a crosswalk. So go the distance, lazy, and get out of drivers’ ways.
I realize some of you walkers and readers are hating me right now, thinking, “I’m the pedestrian, I have right of way,” but you don’t.
But, if you have a place where you think a crosswalk should be, you should contact the University and suggest that they build one in a place that needs one.
If it’ll keep you out of my way, I’ll back you up 100 percent.
We all have places to go, people to see, and thousands of things to do, and if you jaywalk and get hit by a car, you also have an emergency room to visit. You can meet me there because you’ll probably kill my back in the process.
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I agree that pedestrians need to cross in the crosswalks, this is where they have the right of way, not in the streets. When I’m walking anywhere I use crosswalks when I need to cross the street, unless the street is empty and there isn’t a crosswalk nearby. Even if there is only a single car headed your way, you should wait for them if you are not using a crosswalk. Cars are much bigger than pedestrians, and getting hit by a car can be fatal. A few extra seconds added to your trip is worth it. And besides, you’ll definitely be late if you get injured.