Minimally Exceptional

what is the deal with people running red lights and blocking up intersections?

i see this crap all the time around here. case in point, my morning commute to work. i get off the highway and make a left onto a fairly busy street every morning. there is a stoplight at the intersection, and it is in between two more stoplights less than 50 yards apart.

so a guy going straight on the street that i turn onto runs the yellow/red light, and so do two other people behind him. my light turns green, and they are still dicking around stopped in the middle of the intersection because of the traffic that is already there. so i miss my light (along with everyone else trying to get off the highway) waiting for mr. obvious to figure out a way out of the middle of the intersection.

although, in all fairness, he probably wasn’t trying to get out of the intersection, as that would require consideration for others, and if he had any of that, he would have just waited at the red light like a normal god damn human bring.

sound a little frustrated? i am. if this were an isolated incident, it wouldn’t bother me as much. but this kind of stupid stuff happens ALL THE TIME around here. it’s like everyone forgets how to drive once they get behind the wheel and start the engine, so they just wander around trying to get where they’re going without following any of the rules.

either they forget how to drive, or they intentionally drive like a giant asshole, bobing and weaving and cutting people off so that they can trim 30 seconds off of their commute time.

argh.