Tuesday February 22, 2005
And an enforceable one at that. [I don't know if I spelt that correctly, but it's late, I'm tired and I'm not looking it up. So there.]
Janice's Common Sense Traffic Rule #1 - If an automobile driver, namely Janice, is nice enough to let you, a pedestrian, cross the road in the middle of a block for any reason - slow traffic, the goodness of my heart, I don't want to wash your blood off my Jeep, whatever - it is under NO circumstances acceptable for you to take the longest angled route you can find to reach a store over and up the block a bit. No! It behooves you to cross as quickly as possible and that requires a right angled path from curb to curb. I'm warning you people. One more of you makes me wait twice as long as I ought to while I'm being courteous or at least not mowing you down and the whole thing's off. [While I have your attention, a polite little gesture acknowledging that you have been the recipient of this courteousness on my part wouldn't hurt, would it? Not as much as a bumper up your ... think about that for a minute or two.]
Janice's Common Sense Traffic Rule #2- [A proposed NEW rule especially for downtown driving where there seem to rarely be any advance left turn lights - Somerset/Wellington for one] If you are the driver of a vehicle and you have sat in the leftmost lane for an entire cycle of the lights with your left signal off, you MAY NOT put your left signal on immediately after the light turns green. What are you thinking? That it's fun to make that line up of folks behind you wait out the light? Most of us would have moved to the right lane had we known, but now are trapped behind you and oh, look at that, a tandem bus just pulled up... great!
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