Pedestrian Etiquette

I gotta say, pedestrians really are getting bolder as time marches forward.

January must be “Pedestrian walk like an ass-clown month.”  Every Friday I pick up a few bags of bagels for my team.  I think they appreciate that so alas, I continue. 

It always seems as if every time I back up my car in the bagel store’s parking lot, that there is some idiot thats sees me backing me up (and I see them too) but they keep walking behind my car, ensuring that I stop for them. 

Are these people idiots?  Don’t they realize that it’s a bad thing to walk behind a car that is in reverse backing up??  I don’t care if they haven’t had breakfast or their morning latte’ from Starbucks or Peet’s.  The bottom line is:

Don’t walk behind a car that is backing up. 

You put yourself and my car’s bumper at risk when you do this.  Not to mention the time synch it could be.  The last thing I want to do is back over you and have to get out to pull your bloody ass from underneath my car just because your are an ass-clown pedestrian!

As support for my thoughts I found this (here’s the complete link to the list):

“#11, Always look for signs that a car is about to move (rear lights, exhaust smoke, sound of motor, wheels turning), and never walk behind a vehicle that is backing up.”

Dolts!

over and out.