rules, smooles
September 25th, 2008 at 11:16 pm (General)
there are certain rules in life.
i watched one of them get broken as i drove to work yesterday. we were sitting at the red light, waiting. the light is at a T intersection and we were on the cross part of the T. it sort of feels like a light and a cross walk right in the middle of the block. i’ve never had to wait very long there, but apparently the man in the car to my left felt his time was much, much too precious to give even a couple minutes to allow people to cross the street. (though, to be fair, there were no pedestrians at this particular moment.)
he kept creeping up. you know the type. they seem to think that if they crowd the intersection the light will change just to let them through. as i watched him skooch, skooch, skooch up into the crosswalk and then into the intersection.
then
he just drove on through!
really. he’d BEEN STOPPED. and he just decided it was time to go. the person in the vehicle to his left also started to drive, but realised after a second or two that the light was still red and stopped again in the middle of the cross walk.
maybe ten seconds after mr. in-a-hurry decided to run the light it turned green. i caught up to him just about the time i was turning right at the next intersection. his light was red but this time there were cars ahead of him.
