Rod, it's always good to make people start to think.

We played a show yesterday so I couldn't commute, but I commuted again today. Traffic both morning and afternoon was brutally heavy. Is it just me or are people, both drivers and pedestrians, going nuts this week? I've been honked at, I've seen more than the usual impatience and outright moving violations. I saw four or five new splatters of glass today.

This evening Sharon and I walked to the library and as we were climbing the steps we heard tires screech and a guy start yelling out in the street. Some idiot with his wife and two children decided to cross the street in the middle of the block while a car was coming. Then he had the cheek to yell at the driver for not stopping. Then while the car was stopped he yelled at his wife and children to come with him across the street. They wisely didn't want to, so he yelled again. Hey wake up, guy. Just because you are walking doesn't give you the right of way everywhere. "Stop for pedestrians in a crosswalk". You do something stupid and you should expect the consequences. You can't expect everybody else to accommodate your stupid whims.