As a variation on this theme: every couple weeks during the summer, the town I live in holds a street festival of one sort or another in the downtown. When they block off the street for the festival, they use big metal barricades… which they put right on top of the metal-detecting coils that control the stoplights. And the lights respond by giving an extra-long green to the street that’s closed…
Prompts one to say, “What were they thinking?”
Or to punctuate it a bit differently, “What? Were they thinking?”
Fairport, that seems to be the case pretty much everywhere these days. I drive about 20 miles on my way to work and home on I-476 (aka the Blue Route) and I stay in the right lane and do about 55-60 mph (the speed limit is 55) and I rarely pass anyone. However, I do get to work in a good mood, not stressed out, and when I get home, I don’t feel the need to have a drink to calm my nerves. Road rage never comes close to describing my temperment on my commute. I can’t say the same about many of the drivers I watch on my way though. It’s a far cry from the way I used to be when I worked as a field service tech. I used to drive on average, about 1000 miles a week and when I’d stop, I’d find my hands clenched tightly on the steering wheel so much that my shoulders hurt. I guess perspective is a wonderful thing to have.
To rayannina
If the private sector behaves like this, it is usually due to a government regulation. Business can only act stupidly until the money runs out. Government can act stupidly until we vote them out!
This fits almost perfectly with today’s news. Small businesses won’t create new jobs because they don’t know what expenses they’re gonna get hit with. But in this case the a guy with two gigantic “do not cross” signs - cap-and-trade and the Rube Goldberg Healthcare Act - hasn’t put the signs in the guy’s path but is threatening to.
rayannina about 14 years ago
A tip, Wiley – much of the private sector runs that way too …
Pacejv about 14 years ago
Yep–Try Chicagos’ parking meters.
alec1111 about 14 years ago
It’s still missing a toll booth.
madKanga about 14 years ago
Sorry, you are not permitted to get to there from here
Mad-ge Dish Soap about 14 years ago
Don’t push me…
Yukoneric about 14 years ago
I’ll just stay here. If anyone wants me they can just come and get me.
wicky about 14 years ago
Classic Wiley, classic.
DolphinGirl78 about 14 years ago
Explains everything in one panel… very nice…
grapfhics about 14 years ago
what’s a meta for anyway?
puddleglum1066 about 14 years ago
As a variation on this theme: every couple weeks during the summer, the town I live in holds a street festival of one sort or another in the downtown. When they block off the street for the festival, they use big metal barricades… which they put right on top of the metal-detecting coils that control the stoplights. And the lights respond by giving an extra-long green to the street that’s closed…
Prompts one to say, “What were they thinking?”
Or to punctuate it a bit differently, “What? Were they thinking?”
yogakim about 14 years ago
this is genius…covers everything… government, society, religion, and life…very few independent thinkers left…Wiley being the expection…
Nelly55 about 14 years ago
I completely agree yogakim………..hehe
palos about 14 years ago
In other news today, traffic flowed uncommonly well down [blank] street… Update at 11:00.
vexatron1984 about 14 years ago
How long do you think the line will get for crossing that section?
freeholder1 about 14 years ago
Sen. Bunning has found a new job!
thombluemel Premium Member about 14 years ago
CLASSIC!!
runninanreadin about 14 years ago
Heaven forBID that we should do what we think and want…oops! Sorry, that’d be TAXED then, huh?
MisngNOLA about 14 years ago
Fairport, that seems to be the case pretty much everywhere these days. I drive about 20 miles on my way to work and home on I-476 (aka the Blue Route) and I stay in the right lane and do about 55-60 mph (the speed limit is 55) and I rarely pass anyone. However, I do get to work in a good mood, not stressed out, and when I get home, I don’t feel the need to have a drink to calm my nerves. Road rage never comes close to describing my temperment on my commute. I can’t say the same about many of the drivers I watch on my way though. It’s a far cry from the way I used to be when I worked as a field service tech. I used to drive on average, about 1000 miles a week and when I’d stop, I’d find my hands clenched tightly on the steering wheel so much that my shoulders hurt. I guess perspective is a wonderful thing to have.
elkeegan about 14 years ago
To rayannina If the private sector behaves like this, it is usually due to a government regulation. Business can only act stupidly until the money runs out. Government can act stupidly until we vote them out!
veldy about 14 years ago
Well the “do not cross” IS on the wrong side-can’t even screw things up right
AKHenderson Premium Member about 14 years ago
This fits almost perfectly with today’s news. Small businesses won’t create new jobs because they don’t know what expenses they’re gonna get hit with. But in this case the a guy with two gigantic “do not cross” signs - cap-and-trade and the Rube Goldberg Healthcare Act - hasn’t put the signs in the guy’s path but is threatening to.
lewisbower about 14 years ago
Opposite oc progress?
kfaatz925 about 14 years ago
Har har har! Excellent!
freeholder1 about 14 years ago
“I thought it had to be moving to be traffic. (Apologies, Mr. Will Rogers.)
sablebrush5 about 14 years ago
And we want these people to take over our healthcare system?
bmonk about 14 years ago
No, sablebrush5, more like these are the people who want to take over our healthcare system, and we elected them.
Varnes about 14 years ago
The government is the tool of large corporations. It does what they want, every time. Private industry in effect runs the government…
rkorny about 14 years ago
The button on the pole is a voting machine.