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So I was walking around doing the Pokemon GO for my mom and I had to cross a miner road, big enough to have a light small enough that one way of the light is 5 minutes long while the other is the standard 60 seconds.
I get there right when it it cycles to the 60 second part of the light but since I need to cross the direction available with the 5 minute part I wait for the light to change.
Light changes, cross walk light turns on and I started to cross. I'm just past the left turn lane in to the last 1/3 of the distance, and mind you I am looking up as I walk cause One: not stupid and two: I was out of balls to begin with so looking at the phone would be worthless and there are 2 street lights plus some lights from the near by fire station plus I have the right of way. Basically, I'm 2/3s of the way across past the point of no return brightly lite and have the right of way.
So out of no where this giant white truck suddenly comes up making a right hand turn at full speed and stops just 1 foot away from hitting me. Again, I have the right of way. Since theres noway for him to *legally* turn until I'm on the other side I don't stop walking but I do shoot him a dirty look and call him an idiot (tinted window going with the sexist perspective of big ass truck=man) and keep on walking.
This is apparently not good enough as the truck decides to pull out and finish his turn INTO THE LEFT TURN LANE verging in to the opposing traffic lane. He never honked at me, didn't flash his lights, didn't yell at me or anything but he was a moron.
I get there right when it it cycles to the 60 second part of the light but since I need to cross the direction available with the 5 minute part I wait for the light to change.
Light changes, cross walk light turns on and I started to cross. I'm just past the left turn lane in to the last 1/3 of the distance, and mind you I am looking up as I walk cause One: not stupid and two: I was out of balls to begin with so looking at the phone would be worthless and there are 2 street lights plus some lights from the near by fire station plus I have the right of way. Basically, I'm 2/3s of the way across past the point of no return brightly lite and have the right of way.
So out of no where this giant white truck suddenly comes up making a right hand turn at full speed and stops just 1 foot away from hitting me. Again, I have the right of way. Since theres noway for him to *legally* turn until I'm on the other side I don't stop walking but I do shoot him a dirty look and call him an idiot (tinted window going with the sexist perspective of big ass truck=man) and keep on walking.
This is apparently not good enough as the truck decides to pull out and finish his turn INTO THE LEFT TURN LANE verging in to the opposing traffic lane. He never honked at me, didn't flash his lights, didn't yell at me or anything but he was a moron.
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