- Drivers who are turning and don't heed the right of way of crossing pedestrians. Especially those who think if one car turns, it means the rest of them have some kind of invisible advance green turning signal.
- Cellphone users. Most of my close calls as a pedestrian were from cellphone users who were more focused on other traffic (and their conversations) than on crossing pedestrians.
- Drivers who honk merely because they can't wait a fucking second.
- Excessive speeders, especially in inclement weather.
- Drivers who tailgate and then flash their lights at you to get you out of their way, even though you're already 20-30km over the speed limit.
- Drivers who knowingly block intersections due to their case of acute me-firstness.
- Drivers who won't let a single driver in who happens to be stuck in an adjacent lane.
- That smug sense of entitlement and/or ignorance and/or false security that tends to reside in the minds of far too many SUV drivers.
There are more, I'm sure, I just can't think of them at the moment.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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