Current Events > There are Americans who've never used a crosswalk or been a 'pedestrian'. WTF

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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/79133963

thread asks for people's reactions to cars when crossing the street.

several people reply that the question doesn't apply to them because apparently they haven't been a pedestrian or been anywhere that required the use of a crosswalk to get anywhere in their adult lives


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They could be in prison

maybe they're joking or being ironic?

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Kano wins.
Rurality


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live very rural, adjacent to a small town? have to drive everywhere, but shopping strips are all self-contained.

this is pretty close to my existence. though there is a small bit of "downtown" that has stores that require walking from a centralized lot. but i can definitely see people who only ever go to the big box stores.

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Medussa posted...

live very rural, adjacent to a small town? have to drive everywhere, but shopping strips are all self-contained.

this is pretty close to my existence. though there is a small bit of "downtown" that has stores that require walking from a centralized lot. but i can definitely see people who only ever go to the big box stores.

but never in 10+ years? it's one thing if your area only has big box stores so you only go from parking lot to parking lot for your everyday life stuff, but to literally have never been in an area where people walk streets and use crosswalks in 10 years?

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i seen americans cross roads in aus by putting up their hand and screaming "im american, i have right of way".

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i haven't in 10 years. i have before then, but there is simply very very few stores locally where i would be forced to park and walk out of a lot.

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GhettoFlip posted...

but never in 10+ years? it's one thing if your area only has big box stores so you only go from parking lot to parking lot for your everyday life stuff, but to literally have never been in an area where people walk streets and use crosswalks in 10 years?

Are you not american or something

This seems completely possible

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MorbidFaithless posted...

Are you not american or something

This seems completely possible

I'm American. It's not possible.

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MorbidFaithless posted...

Are you not american or something

This seems completely possible

It is completely absurd to me, but at the same time, I realize that the density of urban areas would seem absurd to rural people. Ruralites?

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In the vast midwest of the US this is ENTIRELY possible.

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Phantom36 posted...

In the vast midwest of the US this is ENTIRELY possible.

No, it isn't.

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live in the country over here in VA and this applies to me.

We have highways, parking lots with stores to shop at and that's about it. absolutely no need to ever walk across the road at any point in time. No crosswalk buttons/stoplights/painted paths or anything like that.

I lived in a blue collar town in Utah and I absolutely believe this.

Most people who grew up there never left, there were very few sidewalks and in general it was just set up so you drive absolutely everywhere. Highways down the middle of town etc

People used to look at me like I was a psycho for walking my dog

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people reacting to this like its crazy both underestimate how poorly infrastructured and incredibly spread out a lot of the south is, as well as the propensity of a lot of people there to think thats all there is to life

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Demon1050 posted...

live in the country over here in VA and this applies to me.

We have highways, parking lots with stores to shop at and that's about it. absolutely no need to ever walk across the road at any point in time. No crosswalk buttons/stoplights/painted paths or anything like that.

Colorahdo posted...

I lived in a blue collar town in Utah and I absolutely believe this.

Most people who grew up there never left, there were very few sidewalks and in general it was just set up so you drive absolutely everywhere. Highways down the middle of town etc

People used to look at me like I was a psycho for walking my dog

ultimate reaver posted...

people reacting to this like its crazy both underestimate how poorly infrastructured and incredibly spread out a lot of the south is, as well as the propensity of a lot of people there to think thats all there is to life

10 years.

in 10 years to have never once walked more than one block and/or crossed a street on foot?

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yes. sorry that you can't understand that downtown small town america is completely dead.

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Not a lot of crosswalks here.

Yeah I can see that tbh.

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GhettoFlip posted...

10 years.

in 10 years to have never once walked more than one block and/or crossed a street on foot?

You underestimate how "groundhog day" a lot of suburban blue collar americans' lives are

I thought like you til I saw it in person tbh

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dude I can buy it if it was like a few months, maybe even a year

to go 10 years without going somewhere and parking and then needing to cross the street on foot? like literally crossing a street where cars go by? i don't buy it

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I am pretty sure I have never gone through a crosswalk. I just don't walk anywhere.

Dingydang166 posted...

I am pretty sure I have never gone through a crosswalk. I just don't walk anywhere.

I don't buy that at all. you've literally never been anywhere and needed/wanted to go across the street on foot? never parked across the street from your destination? never parked a block or two away from your destination (someone's house, a shop, restaurant, school, work, church, court, post office, sports arena, concert, plaza, park, etc etc etc) and needed to cross a street or two?

have you never travelled in your life?

are these people doing something you've never done in your life?


is this whole experience alien to you?

you've never once gone from one side of a street like this to another like this:
or this
or this


not once in your entire life? you're a got damn liar, dude
@Dingydang166

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Expecting gamefaqs users to walk, ever

I just live in a rural town where you just drive to a place, park in their parking lot, then leave. Nothing in my life has ever been so crowded here that I have had to park somewhere and THEN walk. You just basically park your ass right outside the door and walk in. And I sure as shit don't see anyone else walking along these roads either so I am pretty sure they are never going to give a fuck about a crosswalk.

Dingydang166 posted...

I just live in a rural town where you just drive to a place, park in their parking lot, then leave. Nothing in my life has ever been so crowded here that I have had to park somewhere and THEN walk. You just basically park your ass right outside the door and walk in. And I sure as shit don't see anyone else walking along these roads either so I am pretty sure they are never going to give a fuck about a crosswalk.

Is that why people get so fat in rural states?

I can almost believe it. Drove to Suitland, MD quite a few times and I never saw people using crosswalks there, even if the person was like ... I don't know, 30 feet from a crosswalk they would just run across the street.

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I've done a ton of walking in my life before I had a car and I still walk because I like to.

This is so weird

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I do a lot of travel (particularly for work) - but I would agree that I am rarely actually in a crosswalk or need to cross a street at all. I don't know off hand - but I'd say I need to cross a street maybe once a month, if not less?

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I've used a cross walk like 3 times ever

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Dingydang166 posted...

I just live in a rural town where you just drive to a place, park in their parking lot, then leave. Nothing in my life has ever been so crowded here that I have had to park somewhere and THEN walk. You just basically park your ass right outside the door and walk in. And I sure as shit don't see anyone else walking along these roads either so I am pretty sure they are never going to give a fuck about a crosswalk.

so you've never travelled? have you literally done nothing but stay in your town? never been to another city?

even if you've never been to any other city, i don't believe that not once have you been forced to cross a street on foot.

there is no freaking way what these people are doing is an alien experience to you:


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GhettoFlip posted...

so you've never travelled? have you literally done nothing but stay in your town? never been to another city?

even if you've never been to any other city, i don't believe that not once have you been forced to cross a street on foot.

there is no freaking way what these people are doing is an alien experience to you:

Nope never traveled. If I ever had to cross a street I just drove instead.

Back when I was in school. That was 14+ years ago. I can't remember the last time I crossed a street walking

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Yeah I love walking. How depressing is that that some will never get the joy of just browsing around some little quaint beach town.

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Yeah, I've lived in the middle of nowhere my entire life. Pretty sure the only time I've ever used a crosswalk is on field trips to the city when I was a kid and a few years ago when I couldn't get ahold of my ride and had to walk to a phone.

Most of the places I go don't even have sidewalks because the main road in my town is basically the highway.

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Dingydang166 posted...

Nope never traveled. If I ever had to cross a street I just drove instead.

are you telling me you've been outside your town? lmao. nobody believes you dude. @Dingydang166

El Mexicano Texano posted...

Back when I was in school. That was 14+ years ago. I can't remember the last time I crossed a street walking

lol. you're telling me you've never been on a street like this

visited some shop there and walked across the street to another shop, or walked to the next block?

there is a 0% chance that is truthful. @El_Mexicano_Texano

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GhettoFlip posted...

they haven't been a pedestrian

Honestly, my first thought was that this was a walking version of "i'm not driving, i'm traveling"

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TC you really shouldnt be surprised at some of these replies...

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TC is well aware of what they're doing.

Anyway, I don't think I've used a crosswalk in 15 years and it still feels foreign to me. I live in a rural area about 5 miles from a small town. There are crosswalks but no one really uses them and they just jaywalk. Nobody really cares.

I'm also pretty sure those crosswalk buttons don't do jack shit. Like the close door button on an elevator.

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Those areas exist in Houston but to stores I don't go to usually small businesses. When I have to go to several stores I just go to the mall or as other people have said I drive to the other store. That pic you showed is really uncommon to find stores like that here at least with stores you would visit being next or close to each other.

This looks like a small town or how time square is set up. We don't have that in Houston unless you live in downtown or close to a college/university.

Where are you from TC?


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I like it when people say 'fucking pedestrians'

a human's default state is a pedestrian

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I've had periods of my life where I didn't walk much, or at all, so I could see that.

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Turtlebread posted...

I like it when people say 'fucking pedestrians'

a human's default state is a pedestrian

And we are all rightfully ashamed of this.

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PowerMang posted...

TC is well aware of what they're doing.

I'm American and in a rural state and agree it's weird as shit. But it didn't surprise me, so there's that

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When I was working in Nashville, sometimes I would work at a State of Tennessee building. There were a bunch of restaurants around there, only about a 10 minute walk away, but absolutely 0 sidewalk like they expect everyone to drive. I would walk anyways most times, because fuck getting an uber for what's a 2 minute ride.

That's a large city, so I absolutely believe there are people who have never had to be pedestrians before, especially living out in the boonies.

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Well it is moving from weird to depressing. Or maybe I don't understand how someone could be content never leaving a tiny hometown to explore a world that's connected and open and free for exploration in a way that our ancestors could not even dream of.

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3PiesAndAFork posted...

When I was working in Nashville, sometimes I would work at a State of Tennessee building. There were a bunch of restaurants around there, only about a 10 minute walk away, but absolutely 0 sidewalk like they expect everyone to drive. I would walk anyways most times, because fuck getting an uber for what's a 2 minute ride.

That's a large city, so I absolutely believe there are people who have never had to be pedestrians before, especially living out in the boonies.

Yeah, but nashville and houston are just as bad or maybe worse than most small cities in this regard. Small town infrastructure is usually older, it was built when density was assumed and probably had sidewalks that have since disintegrated. Nashville and houston are creatures of pure car oriented development, the urban highways there are insane

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Balrog0 posted...

Yeah, but nashville and houston are just as bad or maybe worse than most small cities in this regard. Small town infrastructure is usually older, it was built when density was assumed and probably had sidewalks that have since disintegrated. Nashville and houston are creatures of pure car oriented development, the urban highways there are insane

Right, but my point is that people out in the boonies (like Nashville and Houston were before the population boom) might have never even seen a sidewalk before.

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