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Joyce Coomer: Taught to take responsibility for own safety An opposing viewpoint, answer to: Billy Joe Fudge: Yesterday, woman almost run down in crosswalk By Joyce Coomer Personal Opinion I am very near-sighted. My eyesight got bad between the fifth and sixth grades, and it was nearly a year before I convinced my mother that I really needed glasses. She made an appointment with Dr. Murphy, and when he put the huge E on the wall optometrists used to use, and asked me what it was, I replied that it was an I. (I also have astigmatism.) He said that was enough and prescribed really strong eyeglasses. I overheard my mother a month or so later telling a neighbor that Dr. Murphy told her not to let me cross the street by myself. Dr. Murphy was correct that I did not need to cross the street by myself, for I could not see a car until it was less than three or four feet from me, so I would stand on the corner and listen intently before I started to cross a street. A time or two I came close to being hit by a car, but the drivers and I stopped our forward movements quickly enough to avoid accidents. When I got my eyeglasses, that problem was solved. My father taught me to cross streets safely My father taught me how to safely cross streets when I was very young -- four or five, I think. I was taught not to ever step out into a street until I looked both ways at least twice, and to keep checking the traffic flow while I was in the process of crossing a street. This cautionary measure applied no matter where I was crossing a street -- in the process of jaywalking, at a crosswalk, or on a country road that had no parked cars, stoplights, crosswalks or blacktop. I use this cautionary measure each and every time I walk around the square, or walk across any street in any town I may be in. It is simple self-preservation. While I know where I'm going, and am intent on getting there, that does not mean that drivers are always attentive nor that they will stop at a crosswalk, whether or not a pedestrian is present. I stop before I step into the street, look both directions, then keep watching the traffic flow while I am crossing the street. I would like to know how many people actively do this -- each and every time they cross the square (or any street), including the lady Billy Fudge was referring to in his essay. - Joyce M. Coomer This story was posted on 2014-08-07 11:19:06
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