Hit & Get: Another Life Lesson Learned

While driving to Target today to drop my customary $100 on nothing that I really needed, I had to swerve my car abruptly around a gentlemen standing in the middle of the street impatiently looking for his bus. Now, I have never professed to be a genius (for obvious reasons), but does that really work? Does standing in the middle of a very busy street make the bus drivers pick you up quicker? Maybe it's just me, but I was under the impression that it is a bad thing to get run over by an SUV going 45 mph. Naively, I always thought that being a few minutes late was a much better alternative than death, but obviously, I was mistaken. Thanks Chicago, for teaching me another valuable life lesson!