Attack of the Yuppies!

[badseed1980]

I HAD to share this.

Yesterday afternoon, pierceheart and I were driving through Harvard Square on our way to visit dee_cee on her birthday. We came to a spot where we needed to turn right. There was a controlled crosswalk in front of us, and the signal for the pedestrians had "Don't Walk" showing. pierceheart went to make the turn since he had the right of way, but a couple of people dashed across the crosswalk in front of him, forcing him to brake hard to avoid hitting them. As he made the turn after them, he opened the window and called out to them (quite mildly and not too loudly, considering his usual traffic-induced temper), "What part of 'Don't Walk' don't you get?"

Anyway, shortly after we made the turn we ended up stopped at a light behind a few other cars. Suddenly there's a tapping at my window. I look over, and there's this guy around our age standing there, asking pierceheart, "Did you say something?" pierceheart stared at him and snapped, "Go away!" rather impatiently. The guy said, "You know, you shouldn't yell at strangers on the street. You never know what they might do." This resulted in rather stunned disbelief from both of us. Morgan asked if the guy was threatening him. He said, "No, I'm just saying, you never know what might happen."

Then the light went, and we were able to go forward. At that point, I was finally able to let out the laughter I'd been holding in since he came up and tapped on the window.

Because, you know, his threat would have been a hell of a lot scarier if he'd been wearing a leather jacket that said "Hell's Angels" instead of a fleece jacket that said "Harvard Business School."

Bwahahahahaha!

Loser.

Comments

[miss-lisa-ma.livejournal.com]

Gee, you mean you weren't scared he might have hit you over the head with some overvalued derivitives or something? *shiver*

[frater-treinta.livejournal.com]

One of my friends actually had a gun pulled on him in a similar circumstance. It makes me wonder what kind of "options" the guy had.

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

IF the guy had pulled a gun, Badseed would have been carefully, quietly told to smash the door into him, stunning him.

I then would have jumped across her, grabbed the gun, and shot him.

[tisana.livejournal.com]

Hey, the B-school people scare me. They're usually so conservative it's contagious, and I've heard they don't have souls.

[cloakedrose.livejournal.com]

Amusing how there is a whole throng of people who believe that cars should slow down or stop for them when the light is green, and are outraged when they don't or beep at them. I remember the days when that would happen to me, although nobody ever knocked on my window. I once made a turn (green light) and some peds decided to nonchalantly walk in my path as I was making the turn. When I expressed my displeasure with a toot of the horn, they gave me a look as if I had eaten their only child.

Peds think they own the streets in Beantown. It's this grand, arrogant sense of entitlement. Somehow "Don't Walk" translates to "Let me meander across the street at my own leisure, regardless of oncoming cars, local laws, and for my own (and others) safety. Even if the light for traffic is green, I have the right to walk anywhere, any which way I choose. And if someone in a car calls me on it, there must be something wrong with the driver.

Maybe they should have trap doors placed on and near walkways. It would have special sensors that would activate it if a pedestrian was walking across the street during green light traffic. FWOOMP! Multiple offenses would incarcerate them for a full day beneath busy Boston streets.

[vapidblackrose.livejournal.com]

No mentioning Hell's Angels to me, since I've got a daughter of one in one of my classes....now that's scary. And yes, he periodically threatens the school...about once a month or so....and no, the police arent doing anything about it and are advising to stay away and appease appease appease.
Yeah....

[frothgar.livejournal.com]

The scary guy is the one that has both, the HBS shirt on under the Hell's Angels leathers... To be fair, the HA's I knew in cali were actually really good guys... you just don't want to get them mad. Or if you do, be able to back up your trash talk. (I held my own... usually...)