DConf 2013 official car/room sharing thread

[Zach the Mystic]

On Thursday, 18 April 2013 at 21:30:06 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/18/2013 11:44 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> Since then, I no longer assume that red lights, pedestrian 
>> walk signs,
>> or crosswalk flashing lights mean anything to drivers. You 
>> might pay for
>> that assumption with your life. *shudder*
>
> The phrase is you don't want to be right - dead right.
>
> The bikers and pedestrians that resolutely expect me to dodge 
> them amaze me. They never even look. There'll be 4 abreast 
> walking, sticking out into the lane. To pass them, the driver 
> is forced into the left lane. Of course they never look to see 
> if the drivers actually will.
>
> I drove around a blind corner once (on a fairly major road) and 
> there's a guy on a bike in the middle, stopped, towing his baby 
> behind the bike. I couldn't believe it! I stopped and yelled at 
> him I was so upset - he was shocked that there was anything 
> stupid about what he was doing.
>
> Another time, a woman is pushing her baby carriage down the 
> center of the lane. She didn't even look back as I drove up 
> behind her. I stopped and yelled at her. She said "well, if my 
> number is up, my number is up."
>
> Unbelievable.
>
> My dad used to irritate the heck out of me by driving down 
> residential streets at about 10 mph. I understand now why he 
> did that.

I agree with your sentiment. People are nightmarishly illogical. 
Maybe they feel more like Achilles, whose destiny was greatness, 
followed by death, than, say, Socrates, who got killed because he 
made too much sense. If *I* have to go down, I hope will be more 
like Socrates than Achilles.