I was running errands Saturday and distracted, so when I hit the Fullerton-Pulaski intersection it took me a moment to figure out what was going on. A man with a walker and several full shopping bags had apparently begun crossing the street a few feet outside of the crosswalk and then stopped. A man, in other words, with a host of complicated accoutrements was standing, for no discernible reason, in the middle of a chaotic intersection. Drivers often get aggressive at that corner. Some of the lanes are unmarked, so drivers tend to lose their sense of where a car might fit on the road. There’s an occasional lag in a light change, and the horn-honking comes quick and voluminous. Yet there was a man, in the actual center of a turning lane on Fullerton. Just standing there.
There will be no headlines for this story. But maybe there should be?
