Sunday, August 07, 2005

Triple Installment of Tales of the Traffic Law Challenged

If you live on a residential, narrow, two-lane street do not park a U-Haul on the road in front of your house and a U-Haul trailer on the opposite side of the street, thus making this street one-way.

At an intersection with four-way stop signs, you must wait your turn before driving through said intersection. It works like this people: Traffic moves clockwise. Let's start with the vehicles at the south side of the intersection, shall we? One vehicle moves. Then, one from the west moves. Then, one from the north. Then one from the east. And so on. Say there are only vehicles at the south and east points of said intersection. The same premise applies. One from the south. One from the east. And so on. It is not, and I repeat, not one from the south, two from the east. This possible accident-causing ignoring of the rule just happened not once, not twice but three times. Unless a law was changed and I don't know about it ... Cut it out, people!

Now for the first pedestrian mention in Tales of the Traffic Law Challenged. It doesn't matter how big your dog is or who you are, you are supposed to cross at the cross walk. Even if it's more convenient to cross in the middle of the street, do not do this when there is a car headed straight for you. I understand that in a collision between your dog and my car, your dog would win. That doesn't mean I wouldn't hit you and your dog anyway if I was in a bad mood and/or wasn't paying attention.

That's all for now. More later, I'm sure.

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