So there I was, minding my own business, taking a leisurely stroll on a nice day in a small town. It is a town I used to live in, so I am familiar with the area and taking sideroads, which wind behind the major street in a suburban maze. While walking down a sideroad leading up to the major street, I notice a middle-age woman has come onto her porch. She's holding onto the railing and staring at me as I walk towards her house. I keep looking ahead, ignoring the woman as I walk past her house. Just as I do pass it, I hear a croaky female voice call out "There's a sidewalk on the other side!" I look out of the corner of my eye and can just make out the woman, now facing my back. I continue to ignore her, as I do the second bellowing and continue on my way.
I can just make out a deeper, maler voice asking something like "What's the problem?" and hear the croaky voice, much louder than before, announce "That guy's not using the sidewalk." a short pause, and then I hear her ask "Should we call someone?". I chuckled to myself as I reached the main road, waiting to cross it. As I start to cross, just out of my peripheral vision I can see the woman, followed by her husband five or six steps behind her, walking towards me. I continue to not at all acknowledge them or anything they said to, at or about me. When I am almost across the road, I hear the woman call out "That's not a crosswalk!"
I crossed the road, stopped, turned around, threw them a disgusted look and kept on walking, shaking my head in bewilderment.

The scariest part of all to me is not that there are people who literally have nothing to do so they feel compelled to enforce arbitrary bi-laws (and then being daft enough to break them without even seeming to realize it), it's the fact that one day there will be an agency for these kinds of people to call and report minor infractions to.

Not only that, we live in a time where almost every crime imaginable has become regular practice of those in power, and they're ready to lynch me for walking on the wrong side of the road.

It's already pretty mad out there's and it's going to get worse before it gets better, so do what you can to stay sane.


- Doc