I do lose my cool occasionally. But I do feel more confident, rapping on windows of parked cars blocking crosswalks etc. Don't mess with this lollypop lady!
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Car drivers have no idea what a crosswalk is.
aug 25, 2025, 3:37 pm • 17 0 • view
Legitimately think that most drivers think crosswalks indicate the isolated spots where pedestrians are allowed to cross if there's no cars coming, not what they are, which is where pedestrians have the right of way.
aug 25, 2025, 4:43 pm • 27 3 • view
Ugh. Makes a person want to carry a brick to menace the drivers with.
aug 25, 2025, 4:26 pm • 4 0 • view
I’ve been really tempted to put brick buckets on either side of Montrose by me and by where all these videos are from.
aug 25, 2025, 5:18 pm • 4 0 • view
I hear you. Have you tried putting traffic cones in the crosswalk? I set them on the center line in the x walk. They have a noticeable impact. The CDOT flat placard type with the heavy rubber bottom are the best but they're harder to come by.
aug 25, 2025, 5:38 pm • 3 0 • view
Those will definitely be hit by drivers going 40 to 50 miles mph all in about one day
aug 25, 2025, 5:41 pm • 3 0 • view
Oh, I'm aware. I find the cones up to a block away, often they've clearly been dragged under a car... and that is okay by me. You can keep a stack on the sidewalk with a sign encouraging others to use them. I had about 15 cones at the peak of my collection one year.
aug 25, 2025, 5:43 pm • 3 0 • view
Are you liberating these cones from other locations, or?
aug 25, 2025, 5:44 pm • 3 0 • view
They're found abandoned all over. Once you start seeing them, there are lots. Sometimes they're left by ppls gas or by CDOT. I find them on the shoulder in the planned manufacturing district off 35th street. Sometimes they're down on the Bubbly Creek river bank.
aug 25, 2025, 5:48 pm • 5 0 • view
I just had to run to my bank in UIC. Here we're two that looked pretty abandoned on the way. The one might be a dibs cone but I usually consider any cones in the Parkway where there is no construction to be up for grabs.
aug 25, 2025, 6:37 pm • 3 0 • view
I also have a couple flex posts that I've found in gutters. If the base is intact I keep them. My wife is not always fan of my street artifact hoarding. Lol
aug 25, 2025, 5:50 pm • 3 0 • view
🎵🎶 If I had a hammer, I’d hammer in the mooor-ning … 🎶🎵
aug 25, 2025, 4:57 pm • 2 0 • view
This was the most brazen. I mean, drivers do this kind of bullshit to me all the time. But to do this when there’s a kindergartener crossing? A block from an elementary school? Just revolting. Permanent-license-revocation behavior. I felt bad for slapping the car in front of him.
aug 25, 2025, 4:35 pm • 4 0 • view
aug 25, 2025, 4:53 pm • 8 2 • view
Absolutely. Hardened daylighting is so important. Illegal parking in daylight zones rampant and much more dangerous than most drivers realize.
aug 25, 2025, 5:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Infuriating. I think you'd make a great crossing guard!
aug 25, 2025, 4:39 pm • 4 0 • view
Boils my bagels! Entitled jaggofs. I've definitely let loose on drivers with kids present. The reaction from other pedestrians has always been sympathetic. Lol. Honestly though, you have to have some chutzpah to get through to some drivers. I've nearly let my stop sign fly a few times
aug 25, 2025, 5:31 pm • 0 0 • view