Woman Distracted by Texting Drives Her Car Into a Lake

[TheMadMonk]

75. I'm talking about the self adsorbed idiots who occupy WHOLE paths.

4 out of 5 with dogs on leashes to make their occupation complete, the last weaving down the dead centre of a path about 2 m wide.

I guess you failed to note my coined word "obliviot": Oblivious idiot, or a person who DELIBERATELY makes themselves insensate to the world about them.

I work alongside people (train drivers) who have KILLED such obliviots, some of them more than once.

I've had one step directly in front of me as I attempted to pass them, and if I had not been wearing a peaked cap under my bicycle helmet, I would have a lot less nose than I do now. Even with the cap I still lost most of the skin off my top lip. (Real fun with a moustache BTW.)

I've had others, so isolated from the outside world, that I literally have to scream "EXCUSE ME!" at the top of my voice to get their attention.


I will give pedestrians (and fellow cyclists) EXACTLY the same consideration they show me or others. I am done with going out of my way to accommodate THEIR CHOICE to render themselves aurally insensate.