# don't block the crosswalk!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 12, 2002, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-block-the-crosswalk/108583 "2002-05-12T03:35:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cessandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-block-the-crosswalk/108583/1 "2002-05-12T03:35:48Z")
i am a stay-at-home mother without access to a car and with a tendency towards depression if i go too long stuck at home alone with the kids. so i take them on nice long walks every day, going to wendy’s or the grocery store for a cookie (if only there was a park nearby). it makes me feel better and i don’t get quite so snippy with the kids. but it is kind of difficult to wrangle an infant in a stroller, a four-year-old, and a three-year old, especially having to cross busy streets. that is why i always cross at a corner with a pedestrian light. it does _not_ help me any for you to pull your big-ass black truck completely over the crosswalk, totally blocking the walkway. no, i _can’t_ walk around you, i am not taking three small children directly into the path of oncoming traffic. you are supposed to stop _behind_ the crosswalk. stopping four goddamn feet farther out is not going to get you anywhere any faster. all you’re doing is pissing me off, in addition to anyone who is trying to make a turn from the right-hand lane but can’t see around you. bitch, i am _trying_ to relax here! ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-block-the-crosswalk/108583/2 "2002-05-12T04:56:18Z")
Preach it, sister! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-block-the-crosswalk/108583/3 "2002-05-12T10:56:13Z")
What a coincidence. A few weeks ago I [ranted](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=113062) about this happening in Pittsburgh. Preach it loud, sister (and this from an Episcopalian!). As for me, there’s something to be said for carrying a nice, long umbrella with a point on the bottom. CJ ---
**Author:** ![Cessandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-block-the-crosswalk/108583/4 "2002-05-12T14:58:14Z")
what is _with_ these people? what are they gaining by inconveniencing others? ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-block-the-crosswalk/108583/5 "2002-05-12T17:53:54Z")
Around here, while cars often block crosswalks, it’s not so much of a concern because pedestrians rarely use them. I really have to wonder about people who push baby carriages out between cars stuck in traffic as if using them to test the waters before stepping out themselves. Actually, I’m not really wondering so much as frantically trying not to crash my bicycle into them as I proceed legally down the street only to see a baby carriage poke out from in front of a UPS truck five feet away. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-block-the-crosswalk/108583/6 "2002-05-12T19:50:03Z")
Cess? THE Cess? Welcome back! But when did these kids happen? Last I recall you were getting married. Have you been off boards THAT long? ---
**Author:** ![Cessandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-block-the-crosswalk/108583/7 "2002-05-12T21:50:44Z")
wow, i’m a THE? 😉 they’re step-kids, at least, the older two are. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-block-the-crosswalk/108583/8 "2002-05-12T22:03:12Z")
Hell, I made a rant a while back about the assholes who ignored the campus cross walk-even to the point of seeing me walking across the street and STILL never even slowing down, dodgeing me by inches. The school is SERIOUSLY considering building a bridge over the street, that’s how bad it’s gotten. ---
**Author:** ![kellibelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kellibelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellibelli)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-block-the-crosswalk/108583/9 "2002-05-12T23:21:48Z")
Cess, I am afraid I must INSIST on a lengthy mspims thread about where the hell you have been and how you went from student to stay home mom and what happened with that boyfriend guy and your parents and OMG TELL ME ALL! ---
**Author:** ![Cessandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-block-the-crosswalk/108583/10 "2002-05-12T23:30:12Z")
heheh, ok… 🙂