Originally Posted by
livedarklions
You didn't just admonish her, you called her a name. People generally don't respond well to that. "Hey", "watch out", "pay attention", any one of those would have "snapped her out of it" without the insult.
Yep I tend to do that by the 4th time in a day I've been rammed into, stepped on or sideswiped by someone's parcel while they're not looking where they're going. Its the least I can do to return the favor for their disrespect and lack of focus. I can count the times where someone has even apologized in the last 6 months. That would be once.
I got admonished to "get out of the road" twice this weekend by people claiming I was supposed to ride to the right hand side of a right turn lane while going straight. They always seem a bit shocked when I don't take their "constructive" criticism well. I might be inclined to be a bit more polite about correcting them if they didn't lead with the always snarling "get off of the road".
I'd be more interested in your adherence to policy, rule, laws than your disposition. Accident happen when people allow themselves to become distracted and fail to pay attention to their surrounding; and I've been hurt to many times by the carelessness and inattentiveness of others. If it were an accident, they'd apologize. At that point when it comes to "politeness," I'm fresh out.
Originally Posted by
cyclintom
Was she wearing ear buds and listening to music from her smartphone? This is a large cause of pedestrian deaths these days.
I don't even understand that. I wear headphones but I can always still hear what's going on around me.