I hate this country!

Today, on the way to the pet shop to buy some food for the dogs, I had to cross a tiny side street. The light had just changed to red. Because

-it was freezing and
-any time not moving with the dogs increases the chance of meeting this unfriendly doggie compatriot that lives right there and
-I know that after the light turns red, the left-turn signal goes on for a few seconds and the cross traffic won't start moving and the street is literally 20 feet across and
-I'm a goddamn adult,

I decided to cross the street anyway. Of course I walked quickly.

Suddenly this woman in a car waiting at the red light in the cross street beeps her horn at me, and as I look back at her, she starts gesticulating toward the red pedestrian light with this frown on her face.

Now, there was no chance I was blocking traffic and somehow impeding her driving. All this was was a typically German gesture that says "You did something wrong [jay-walking is akin to child-abuse here, and if you do it in front of children, it's considered worse than child abuse -but there was no child, I checked!] and I saw you do it and I'm going to point that out to you and teach you a lesson."

It pissed me off like nothing else.

Then, she turned the corner, pulled into a parking spot, and let out her dog from the back seat who was a) not restrained in the car and b) not on a leash. I decided to take the high road and refrained from pointing out her failure in observing these two laws -that would have been very German.