Subj : I'm being slammed by thes
To   : Daryl Stout
From : Barry Martin
Date : Tue Nov 10 2020 08:13:00


Hi Daryl!

 BM> Sort of makes sense to give a hint how much time one has before the
 BM> light changes, though of course some drivers take it as a challenge: "I
 BM> can get through the intersection in less time!". :(
 DS>   Or the tagline: Postal Worker: DO NOT BEND is NOT a challenge!! :P

Rip! Tear! Wrinkle!  And sort of speaking of post stuff, the mail here 
didn't get delivered until a few minutes after 9 p.m.  


 BM> So during the red-yellow the stopped-waiting-for-the-green drivers take
 BM> their manual transmissions out of whatever gear, move it to 1st and
 BM> hold the clutch -- at the green RELEASE THE CLUTCH AND EVERYONE GOES!!!
 DS>   Sounds like the staging lights at a drag race.

Ha-ha! Sort of!  No peel-outs though.  Definitely would not be a good
idea to try to 'extend' the yellow by driving though it.


 BM> At first to me was a little confusing as where I grew up in New
 BM> Hampshire the red-yellow was the pedestrian walk signal which also
 BM> meant all directions of car traffic was stopped.
 DS>   That's the way it's supposed to work...but I've seen some where
 DS> the drivers zip right on through, as if the signal isn't there.
 
To me it makes sense but then that's what I was raised with.  


 DS>   I've noticed the crosswalk signals now have a countdown timer,
 DS> so folks have an idea how much time to get across.
 BM> For the pedestrians?  Same here.
 DS>   Yet, some try to beat it across, or ignore it altogether.

Yes: assume the person walking will keep walking or suddenly dart out in
from of the car.  I look under parked cars for shadows: small kid or 
animal might be between.



 BM> At the time I was living in an apartment complex: efficiencies and
 BM> 1-bedrooms in the main U-shaped building and 2-bedrooms in 4-plexes
 BM> across the street.  After that super-cold a group of about five or six
 BM> of us went to check on the empty apartments to make sure heat was on,
 BM> pipes didn't freeze, etc.  Only really needed one person to do the
 BM> checking but was a combination safety thing to accompany the other
 BM> person in the cold plus something to do plus "Yeah! I was out in that
 BM> cold!".  (Good news: no problems.)
 DS>   That's like people "ice fishing". They forget that ice freezes
 DS> from the top down, and not the bottom up. Too many folks have
 DS> lost their lives in the frigid waters.

Yup.  Every winter the news remonds people not to skate or walk across 
ponds, creeks, the Mississippi: may look solid but isn't.


 
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