How to Send a Clear Message

It’s been years since I lived in Seattle, long enough that when I’ve gone back to visit the city is substantially changed. One of my chief memories of the time I spent there is that driving in the downtown area instilled a powerful hatred of pedestrians. It’s like they believed that rain gave them the legal right to jaywalk, and the fact that rain also decreased visibility and made it harder to stop on a dime was the driver’s problem. The rain would start and people would dart out into the road, running hunched over, the way characters in movies do when they’re trying to keep from getting spotted.

I can’t tell you how many times some jaywalker gave me a dirty look and the finger right after I had saved their life.

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