New York Minute 151 - Crossing Against The Light

I was waiting at a corner for the light to change when two well-heeled ladies in their seventies walked past me and stepped into the street. A lady with dark hair stopped short of the traffic lane. The other one, a blonde, marched right across the street without checking for traffic. 

A silver Mercedes Benz was approaching the intersection. The driver, another fancy-looking lady in the same age bracket, calmly stopped her vehicle short of the crosswalk and avoided hitting the jaywalker. 

The woman who had crossed carelessly defied logic further by stopping in the middle of the street, right in front of the slowing car, instead of scurrying to safety on either side of the street. After shooting a nasty glance toward the driver, she finished crossing. The driver, who deserves a medal for her calmness as well as her caution, proceeded on her way as though nothing had happened.

Since no other cars were coming, the dark-haired woman who had waited before crossing now walked to the other side to join her extremely fortunate blonde friend.

“I missed the light,” the blonde admitted, “but she could have stopped!”

I was aghast at the arrogance. “She DID stop, you self-important imbecile!” my internal voice screamed contemptuously. “If she hadn’t, you would be lying in the street right now with broken bones and life-threatening internal injuries!”

One of the amazing qualities of human beings is the ability rewrite history as it unfolds, and then walk away fully believing their own self-supporting bullshit.

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