What do you do when a car pulls up to crosswalk at the same time your running through it?

I run into it and sue the driver.

If there is any risk to me I'll stop and do a 180 to pretend like I'm going the other way so the driver doesn't try to be nice and let me cross, this ensures that I'm always going to cross behind them. The only safe side of a car is the backside

I don’t run at night, but even in the day I generally run behind unless I have clear eye contact with the driver. The amount of drivers, especially those turning to the right, don’t actually look right before turning. If I am cross to their right, I usually will run behind. I probably would have been hit multiple times by now had I not.

Run close enough so that I can slam my hands on their car angrily if they don't stop, but i pay enough attention so I'm never really at risk of getting hit.

I’m sure I’m over 100 car slams in my 42 years of running. Rarely has it escalated but once some bïtch in an SUV came back around and said she’s calling her husband and he’s gonna come take care of me. I simply replied ‘tell your husband I think you’re fat and ugly but I’d still let you lick my balls.’

She drove away.

If they seem like a decent driver, i would usually just zig zag behing them. If they seem like a dick head, definitely run through the cross-walk and make them wait. For real.

seattle prattle wrote:

If they seem like a decent driver, i would usually just zig zag behing them. If they seem like a dick head, definitely run through the cross-walk and make them wait. For real.

It's no big deal to this during the day when you can make eye contact but it's a different story in the evening or even during the day when the car has tinted windows and you can't see through them. I'll usually adjust my pace to give cars time to clear the intersection. I'm referring to approaching on the driver side where the driver is looking left. Sometimes they just sit there forever (even when they got plenty of time before I get to the intersection _and you don't know if they are waiting for you to cross or distracted by reading their phone.

I run around the back of the vehicle.

the sidewalk runner wrote:

seattle prattle wrote:

If they seem like a decent driver, i would usually just zig zag behing them. If they seem like a dick head, definitely run through the cross-walk and make them wait. For real.

It's no big deal to this during the day when you can make eye contact but it's a different story in the evening or even during the day when the car has tinted windows and you can't see through them. I'll usually adjust my pace to give cars time to clear the intersection. I'm referring to approaching on the driver side where the driver is looking left. Sometimes they just sit there forever (even when they got plenty of time before I get to the intersection _and you don't know if they are waiting for you to cross or distracted by reading their phone.

it depends how major a road it is. Major thoroughfare- i'd be more likely to cut behind them and that is just because there's more room and better visibility in general. On the little residential streets i run at night, there's really no stop signs so if they are stopping, they are doing it becuase they saw me coming and that's like the only reason they would have stopped - so i would feel okay crossing in front of them, ANd being a smaller street, zig-zagging around them would be more severe within the shorter width of the road, thereby messing up my GPS distance/pace, and we can't have that, can we?

I don't know. I call it by ear at the time. But the only rule i have is never stop. Either do the cross-walk straight away or zig-zag around them. But never break stride or stop.

If I can touch your car, you're a bad driver and your car was too close to me.

I give the car a pat on the ass, so to speak. Sometimes it's loud. Occasionally the driver gets out and wants to fight. Usually they quickly perceive that I'm crazier than they are.

the sidewalk runner said: What do you do when a car pulls up to crosswalk at the same time your running through it?

I stop. and while I'm waiting for the car to pull away I contemplate the ineffable nature of apostrophes.

you're welcome.

But not capitalization apparently.

If I'm going at a quick pace and don't wanna lose my flow, I'll veer out into the road into potentially oncoming traffic. This gives the driver a more clear view of me and creates space for me to react if the driver proceeds. This technique is surely chancey. Gives me an adrenaline shot.

GoatZenHeimer wrote:

I run around the back of the vehicle.

This. All the bravado and being "right" isn't worth getting struck by a car. The car will win.

The drivers usually roll through the stop sign and look the other way. I usually yell at the driver and smack the car and give them the finger. If I were holding a rock or something sharp I'd scratch the car or break a window.

Only once did a whole bunch of Eastern Europeans came out of a white van and tried to surround me. I told them to get back to their orgy in the back called them pussies and ran off.

seattle prattle wrote:

If they seem like a decent driver, i would usually just zig zag behing them. If they seem like a dick head, definitely run through the cross-walk and make them wait. For real.

And if they don't wait, you lose.

If the driver tries to roll through without yielding then I run in front of the car, drop trou, turn and moon them, raise my pants, yell “gobble gobble motherf*cker!” while giving them a two handed finger and resume my run. I’ve done this about twelve times. No one has ever bothered me afterwards.

It's True wrote:

GoatZenHeimer wrote:

I run around the back of the vehicle.

This. All the bravado and being "right" isn't worth getting struck by a car. The car will win.

This.

I break their window and projectile vomit into their car.