Well, that didn’t take long…

Sorry to interrupt the festive holiday mood but…..

1. You can’t fix stupid.  Stupid is unfixable.

2. If you want to direct traffic, apply at the police station and if hired, you can direct traffic, otherwise, stop directing traffic from your car seat you dumbasses. You aren’t being kind, nor generous, or even courteous. You are creating a traffic hazard and the possibility of an accident.  Let me explain….

I post my Christmas message this morning and felt good. I really did and decided to leave and finish the last of our Christmas shopping, mail some cards and even grab some lunch out.  That lasted 5 minutes. Follow me here.  Driving on Western in the left lane making the curve onto Main (east bound) coming up to the Farmington Rd light. The light just turned green and nobody is behind me but for some reason, this idiot in the Ford Ranger pickup in front of me dead stopped in my lane. There was a car, westbound on Main wanting to turn left onto Rebecca St, ya know.  Where the $200,000 arbor was built?  Well, I am not too frickin happy to sit behind this idiot while he directs traffic on his lard ass and directs the car to turn in front of him. If I went around, I feared the driver turning left wouldn’t see me yet, if this simpleton just went, instead of directing traffic, we would be gone by now and the guy could make his turn.
Now, I am wondering if I am going to even get the light at Farmington Rd which has been green long enough for the traffic to move. Ok the guy turns but guess what?  There was another car behind that guy that also wanted to turn left onto Rebecca.  So, my simpleton cop wannabe idiot flags him through also and he goes…..bamm!!!!  A car in the right lane coming around the curve who had no idea that some idiot was directing traffic from his ass seat, slammed into the left turner.  Guess who took off, blew the light at Farmington Rd and went left down the hill?  Yep, Mr. Traffic director.  I witnessed the accident and I stuck around.  No one was hurt but it could have been worse. In my job, I have seen worse caused by the exact same thing. The police officer most likely will ticket the left turning driver but IMO, that assbag who stopped in a traffic lane should also have a ticket.  The officer confirmed this to me too.  I took his plate number so who knows.

The whole point folks is this.  Everyone wants to do something nice.  Well most of us do.  It’s one thing if you are on a two way street, say near a stop sign or traffic light, to let someone in, but to stop and direct your lane and another lane is dangerous and stupid.  This accident is a prim point.  I saw this same accident a few years ago on N University at McClure when someone stopped in the right lane and flagged a driver, who was making a left onto University from the gas station parking lot.  (Why you wouldn’t pull out onto McClure and then use the traffic light to make your turn onto University makes me wonder, but again, stupid is stupid) The driver went and was t-boned from a car in the left lane trying to make the light.  That accident had some serious injuries and that traffic directing assbag left the scene too!

So remember, you are violating the law by stopping in a traffic lane when you stop, when you should be going, to let someone out.  You would be ticketed if you stopped your car in any lane of traffic and got out so why would stopping to direct traffic be any different?  It’s not. BTW, nobody, and I mean nobody seems to care if the speed limit on Main has been lowered to 25mph.  I drive it 25 because I refuse to be one that gets a ticket but I am passed liked I am standing still and even tailgated.  FEH.