Nudge the pedestrian a few times with your car, if they’re to slow. What the hell grumpy old fart guy? We get some of the most disturbed individuals in the papers for Wisconsin. Bump her into the next county.
And you thought all the Grumpy Old Men lived in Minnesota.
I don’t condone what he did, but I can certainly understand the temptation.
As for my pedestrian ways, I walk slowly, but I try to stay out of the way of other traffic, foot and auto.
Most people have had that temptation.
I always walk straight across lanes in parking lots and not down them or diagonal. Getting out of the traffic lane should be a priority of the pedestrian.
That’s why I’ve got air horns under the hood. Works better than nudging and leaves no bruises!
Reminds me of my favorite parking story…
There’s a parking garage at work with an attendant’s booth at the entrance. So this little old man pulls into the entry lane, but he hits the booth. So he backs up, turns his wheels, and comes back and hits the booth again.
The attendant comes running out, and instead of waving him away, she start giving him hand signals to line up his car so he can get into the garage without hitting the booth again. And I’m thinking, you are sending this guy into a dark 10 story garage with even narrower lanes, and sharp turns, and narrow parking spaces, and nothing but other cars to hit. This is not going to end well.
Then I remembered my car wasn’t in the garage, and just started laughing hysterically. I have a cruel sense of humor.
That’s why I like driving a car with a manual transmission. You just stomp on the clutch, then REV the hell out of the engine. They scatter.
You can do that with an automatic in neutral too.