I **almost** missed the light rail today, and thus, **almost** missed my connecting bus, because some motorist had a phone call that was more important than my right to live...I was about to cross a street at the crosswalk, when I noticed her approaching the intersection to make a right turn. She was busy yapping away on her phone, looking at oncoming traffic, and I could **tell** she didn't see me in the crosswalk, so I actually stopped crossing, turned around, got on the sidewalk, all so she could make her right turn without putting her phone down. Because no matter what these morons say about their ability to multi-task, she absolutely did not notice that I was in the crosswalk, and I didn't feel like ending up as roadkill to prove that she can't talk and drive.

So she went on her merry way, blissfully unaware that she had stopped me from crossing. Then the light changed, so I couldn't cross. OK, no problem, I walked a few blocks farther down, to another crosswalk, only the light took forever to change, because God forbid that the almighty auto should have to stop for something as unimportant as pedestrians. By the time I was able to cross the street, and approach the light rail station, the train was pulling in, and I had to run like hell, with a full bag of books, just to make it.

And she has no idea. She's probably telling everybody what a great driver she is.