Driver's are making me more and more eye-twitching mad. I know I know, I have a low tolerance for people to begin with. After moving into the city I figure, what the hell it's better then being stuck on the highway with everyone else.
Now that I've settled into a house my tolerance level has dropped tremendously. I think it has something now to do with...I just want to get work and get home with less problems as possible.
Ok back to where this is going. This morning on my way to work (yes I overslept, yes Bryan is out of town there is a correlation here people) I came to a four way stoplight that my light was blinking yellow and the crossstreet was blinking red....
Ok back to where this is going. This morning on my way to work (yes I overslept, yes Bryan is out of town there is a correlation here people) I came to a four way stoplight that my light was blinking yellow and the crossstreet was blinking red....
Do we know where this is going? Yes this does not mean to treat the intersection as a four way stop. (now if all four light were blinking red then it becomes a four way stop) But the streets with a yellow continue passing through the intersection with "caution" because the side streets are now to treat the intersection whelp just as that side streets entering into a main street they stop and wait. :)
As I went through the intersection cars started honking at me.. So I decided to come into work and post the driving law for all who didn't know, and if you did know you now have validation for your anger :)
Taken straight from the Georgia's Driver Manual:
As I went through the intersection cars started honking at me.. So I decided to come into work and post the driving law for all who didn't know, and if you did know you now have validation for your anger :)
Taken straight from the Georgia's Driver Manual:
"A red flashing light means you must stop completely then
proceed with caution.
A yellow flashing light means you must slow down and exercise
caution before proceeding through the intersection. "
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Doing anything behind the wwheel of a car (short of sex) can be frustrating (including sex)... ;-)
In the most simplictic terms, a flashing yellow light is a yield sign, and a flashing red light is a stop sign. But I know a lot of people who treat yields as stop signs, and stop signs as keel-over-and-die signs. I often end up shouting at them that they drive like porcupines f***.
Take the most pacifistic person you know and watch them behind the wheel of their own vehicle, and I guarantee you'll notice a change. My ex-GF L.P. was like that - Sister Mary Innocent when seen out and about, but behind the wheel, she could say things that would make a sailor blush...
BTW: nice new layout - is it beta? IF so, what are your thoughts about beta so far?
I know it, and me: I swear up a storm when I'm not behind the wheel, so it's not pretty when I get road rage.
Hey thanks about the new layout, yeah it's beta not sure about it b/c it's harder to change coding. We will see as time goes by.
Keep me posted on how the beta experiment goes - I've been considering it myself a lot recently.
I had a cop pull us over once for "running" a flashing yellow light. She was stopped at the flashing red light on the crossing street, pulled us over, and told us we failed to stop. I then proceeded to explain to her that it was a flashing yellow light. After a pause, she said, "Sir, there is no such thing as a flashing yellow light. Consider this a warning. I will ticket you if you run another light."
There's a reason you can be a cop with just a high-school diploma.
I'm just saying.
Hhahaha! oh zing
I still remember Ken telling me about how he taught his son what the lights mean:
Green - go
Red - stop
Yellow - speed up
Now the kid's no fool, and he was taught traffic rules in school: yellow means slow down. So Ken says, OK, let's go to an intersection and watch ten cars drive through it, and we'll see what they do. Nine of them sped up... The poor confused child now says yellow means speed up... people, we have about four more years before he gets a learner's permit, get all your important driving done before then! ;-)
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