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Dear CU Students;
I am sad to learn that your parents were too busy doing... whatever it was they were doing instead of parenting you... to teach you how to cross the street when you were young. You might want to find a 'street crossing buddy' who does know how to do it to assist you so that you do not get squashed flatter than a pancake by passing cars. Failing that, here are some simple instructions:
1) look for a place on the street painted with white bars
2) look on the traffic signal closest to the place on the street painted with white bars, find a small box-like light wherein a small icon of a 'person' who looks a lot like the AOL IM Symbol resides.
a) If the IM-Symbol is WHITE, you may cross the street, staying within the white bars.
b) If the IM-Symbol is ORANGE and FLASHING, you should hurry across the street because the light is about to change.
c) If the IM-Symbol is ORANGE and STEADY, remain on the sidewalk and do not attempt to cross the street.
PS: If you do attempt to cross the street while the IM-Symbol is ORANGE and STEADY, do not glare at traffic if they almost hit you. It's your own damned fault.
And on a completely unrelated subject, if anyone on my flist lives in the Baltimore area and would like a kitten, see this post.
I am sad to learn that your parents were too busy doing... whatever it was they were doing instead of parenting you... to teach you how to cross the street when you were young. You might want to find a 'street crossing buddy' who does know how to do it to assist you so that you do not get squashed flatter than a pancake by passing cars. Failing that, here are some simple instructions:
1) look for a place on the street painted with white bars
2) look on the traffic signal closest to the place on the street painted with white bars, find a small box-like light wherein a small icon of a 'person' who looks a lot like the AOL IM Symbol resides.
a) If the IM-Symbol is WHITE, you may cross the street, staying within the white bars.
b) If the IM-Symbol is ORANGE and FLASHING, you should hurry across the street because the light is about to change.
c) If the IM-Symbol is ORANGE and STEADY, remain on the sidewalk and do not attempt to cross the street.
PS: If you do attempt to cross the street while the IM-Symbol is ORANGE and STEADY, do not glare at traffic if they almost hit you. It's your own damned fault.
And on a completely unrelated subject, if anyone on my flist lives in the Baltimore area and would like a kitten, see this post.
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I'm with Betty. Take a few of them out and maybe the smart ones among the others would get more careful.
:::is bloodthirsty::::
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Please not that simply walking into the street and studiously _ignoring_ the car bearing down on you, after giving it a casual glance, will not magically make it stop. In fact, it might be prudent to bear in mind that one of your own, drunk or talking on a cell phone, might be at the wheel rather than the faculty/staff person who slams on the brakes.