For the second time in two months, a car driven by a young person has tried to make a turn into the crosswalk while I was walking and the crosswalk sign was white. In each case, said young person stuck their head out the window, and suggested that I was in the wrong (Suggestion #1: “You better watch where you’re pushing that baby.” Suggestion #2: “Really? Really?”).

So, two assumptions: A) For every driver that sticks her head out the window, there are another hundred who mutter about the idiot on the crosswalk walking in front of their car when they’re trying to turn. B) New York drivers are generally aggressive about edging their way into intersections, but I’ve been in the city for 11 years now, and this decision by young drivers to actually blame the person on the crosswalk for using the crosswalk seems knew.

The “Really?” run-in just happened this morning on Prospect Avenue. Is anyone else seeing an increasing number of cars trying to push pedestrians off the crosswalk? Are young drivers the one doing it?