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tessagoldsmith:

is when I’m crossing the street at an intersection and there’s a green light and a white walking guy symbol indicating that it’s my turn to walk and then the driver in the first car across the intersection who’s waiting to turn right looks at me and motions by lifting one hand with the back facing me and pulls his/her fingers toward him/herself, like “please go ahead”, or “you can go”.

Yeah, I can. You’re going to wait and I’m going to walk. That’s how this works. You don’t need to tell me I can walk. That’s what the traffic light is for.

They always have this look of a guy taking off his jacket and throwing it over a puddle for a lady. It’s like they’re doing me some big favour by not racing to turn before I get to that side of the intersection, when it’s usually just a veiled way of hurrying me across.

Fact is, if you can turn before I reach your side of the intersection, you will (and I will wince and feel the rush of death fly past my face like I do so many times each day). If you can’t, you’ll have to wait until I’ve crossed (and I’m pretty sure you can afford me those 6 seconds).

*and trust me, there are lots of things I hate about Montreal drivers.

Related: Have you (as in Tessa and the Tumblr Quebec Auxiliary) seen the new road courtesy ad campaign?  THOSE SITUATIONS HAVE NEVER, EVER OCCURRED IN THE 400-YEAR HISTORY OF QUEBEC.