Subj : I'm being slammed by thes To : Barry Martin From : Daryl Stout Date : Mon Nov 09 2020 09:30:00 Barry, BM> Sounds like a good reason not to set up laywer/doctor/etc. offices in BM> the town one grew up in: "oh yeah, I remember when I chnaged your BM> diapers", "I remember when you "..... LOL!! 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!". :( Or the tagline: Postal Worker: DO NOT BEND is NOT a challenge!! :P 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!!! Sounds like the staging lights at a drag race. 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. That's the way it's supposed to work...but I've seen some where the drivers zip right on through, as if the signal isn't there. That reminds me of the joke, where these 2 elderly women are going down the road, and they go through 3 consecutive red lights. Amazingly, they don't get broadsided, or seen by a cop. Anyway, the passenger turns to her driver, and tells her "Do you realize that's the third red light you've gone through??", and the other woman replies "Oh!! You mean I'm driving??!!" 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. Yet, some try to beat it across, or ignore it altogether. DS> It ignited a different kind of passion...get the heck out of DS> there!! BM> It was a different kind of flash! Gives the term flash mob a whole new meaning. 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.) That's like people "ice fishing". They forget that ice freezes from the top down, and not the bottom up. Too many folks have lost their lives in the frigid waters. Daryl .... A lawyer is someone who calls a 200 page document a brief. === MultiMail/Win v0.52 --- SBBSecho 3.11-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - tbolt.synchro.net (454:1/33) .