Do you have anxiety with crossing the road?

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Well, I do, but I think it's more of an issue of worrying of a stupid driver coming off of a turning lane than anything else. I might worry about how people look at me while I walk, but it's really not that bad of an issue.

I've REALLY come to hate crossing the roads, because mostly when I cross the road, drivers seem to get angry at me, and bib their horns or shout out things out the car windows, or other stupid things that won't solve anything. But it's not that I even cross at the wrong times or anything. I cross in good time, when both sides of the road are clear, and then a car zooms up from nowhere and loses his temper with me. Today I was waiting 15 minutes (yes, 15 minutes!) to cross a road which isn't normally that busy, and a car was also waiting to come out from a turning what was opposite me, and in the end I was getting fed up with standing there like a lemon for ages, while cars, cars and more cars kept roaring by. Then there was one empty space, so I quickly dived across the road, and just before I got onto the kerb at the other side of the road, the w*ker in the car that was at the turning pulled out and shouted out something about crossing the road at me. I didn't catch exactly what he said, but I knew there was no need for that because I knew I definately was not causing a hazard. A car pulling out of a turning onto quite a tight road takes about 2 or 3 seconds longer than a pedestrian crossing the road (and I hurried aswell), and the crossing where the w*ker pulled out of wasn't directly opposite me - it was just a few feet down the road, so no I was not causing any hazards at all. People are just out to pick on me, and I know that because I've pulled out the turning there in a learner driver's car loads of times and people have been crossing and it wasn't enough to cause road rage or hazards.

f*****g c****ng people are just out to f*****g pick on me because I'm a f*****g stupid mug who is better off f*****g dead.

I don't like to push the crosswalk buttons because I feel like a nuisance - having to walk in front of the cars and thinking they are thinking "what a dick! stopped this busy street just so one pedestrian. could cross!"

Sometimes I cross the busy street without pushing the button, but I have had issues with misjudging car speed, and a strongly suspect cars have sped up and deliberately veered toward the center line to get closer to me and "send a message"

Then I get angry about the way any homicidal maniac can get a DL in Canada

Only when I am in the car driving and there are no stop lights and the road is very busy. I am always afraid of getting hit. So I will usually turn right and then turn left and then turn back onto the road and go the other way. So that way I only had to focus on one side of the road than both sides with cars coming each direction instead of one direction.