JUST A LITTLE RANT

Ok, I can rant with you.  My  83 yr Mom's health clinic will not make appts for people over 80 unless they call for one.  What is the message being sent....

From what I understood - she and the other seniors are having to cross a 5 lane road and the light's timing only gives them 20 seconds!!![8|]

I hope someone in the town shows some common sense and fixes that light.  The cops use the excuse "It impedes the flow of traffic".  I am sorry but you can wait and let someone cross the road!  Have a little decency people! 

Ok - I had to rant too! 

just remember...us baby boomers are all getting there soon...
they'll have to adjust the timers on traffic lights soon enough....[&:]

people in LA walk? what a novel concept []

This kind of thing really ticks me off.  At her fastest, my 4'8" 82 year old Mom walks like a snail compared to my 32 inch inseam legs....I literally walk like I'm walking down the aisle with her....step, pause, step, pause, so she doesn't feel the need to rush.  If someone gave HER a ticket for impeding the flow of traffic, by golly they would have ME to deal with.  Anyone that age who actually gets out and WALKS (as they should) needs a medal, not  citation.

Anyone who gives and elderly person a ticket for not being able to walk faster is just plain STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!

I heard this on my radio news yesterday....they said that some college kids have not been able to make it across before the light changes.  Not that the cops or the city seem to care.  I just hope that cop gets a ticket for the same thing at some point in his life.

Whatever happened to Pedestrians First?! I thought they always had the right-of-way.

If I ever got so old and feeble that I couldn't cross the street in a reasonable length of time, I would hope someone would run over me.  []

LMAO. you're so bad.

That senior citizen is part o fthe Greatest Generation who made it possible for this cop to be part of a free country, NOT a Nazi one.  If anything, the cop should be HELPING this little old lady across the street MAKING the traffic wait!

I power walk and I would be hard-pressed to be able to get across five lanes in twenty seconds! Let's time the COP and see how long it takes for him/her to get across.[sm=soap%20box.gif]

Maybe that has been set up so the cops can make some tickets.
 
I agree with Glenda. I would be the one to be dealt with if they wanted to give a ticket to my father-in-law. I know it's a cliche but at the end of it all, I would, in fact, have that cop's badge. And, whether or not he's a church-goer, by the time I'm done with him, he will, in fact, wish to God he had never met me.
 
Abuse of power is something we must all combat.
 

I had an incident the first major snow of the winter.  we live out in the boonies, but our road is a major shortcut so heavily traveled.  I'd been out clearing the very LONG driveway for hours one day....going from bundled down to just a sweatshirt.....and was near the end of the driveway when my hip gave out on me.  Several years ago the doc harvested bone from my hip to fuse my neck and I've had problems with the hip ever since.  Now and then, it just stops supporting me. So, there I am sitting in my driveway, unable to get up.  The State Patrol stopped.  I'm thinking, great, he can help me stand up, and I can use the shovel as a crutch to get back up the hill to the house.  Nope.  He yelled at me for distracting traffic and ORDERED me to get up immediately.  When I couldn't he became enraged.  And when I reached for the shovel to TRY to comply, he drew his gun screaming at me to "drop the weapon".  Let me tell you, I almost had poop patrol to do after ME!  This was abuse of power at it's worst.  I wasn't distracting traffic....my driveway is hidden in trees....I wasn't yelling and waving my arms for help, nor was I doing a strip to entice someone to stop.  I was simply sitting there waiting for my hip to start working again, and freezing my butt into the snow while I waited.  I truely did not WANT to be sitting there in the snow.....I truely wanted to get up and walk into the nice warm house and have a hot cup of coffee and a warm bath......but, I must be on drugs to be out without a coat....gee, it was hanging from the rear view mirror of my van, along with all the other stuff that I'd taken off once I got to working hard.  That particular officer has been on desk duty ever since.  And taking sensitivity training.  And has apologized to me in front of his Captain.  He's young and brash and I truely didn't want to cause him to loose his livlihood, but hey, I'm not exactly a threatening looking character and I WAS just sitting in the snow.......

That cop must have been crazy. How could he not like a woman, a doggy angel, at that, shoveling snow in just a sweatshirt? Maybe I'll try that the next time we get snow and see what my reception is. Just kidding. I'm glad you were able to resolve it.