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It is amazing to me how brave so many folks are when they get behind the wheel of their 2 ton automobiles. Brave and stupid.

I’m sure that a lot of the drivers I see are closet rebels- ignoring traffic laws because they aren’t going to be told what to do, by anyone. But, I find it hard to believe that all drivers are like that. No, I think it’s a case of mass-oblivion.

Let me spell this out for those of you that are driving manual-illiterate. We have these things called Traffic Laws. If you violate them, the government will take money for you. The Traffic Laws aren’t designed to take your money. They’re designed to keep your stupid arses alive.

Try this experiment at home if you don’t believe me. Take two crackers, one in each hand, and slap them together. Did they break? Of course they did. So will your car, when it collides with another car.

Since we don’t have pins on our cars and slots in the road to guide them, we have to have a way to keep our cars from slapping together. That’s where them thar traffic laws come into play. I know, I know, some of you are so important, the laws shouldn’t apply to you.

Like the nimrod I saw this past Monday morning.

I had just slowed to a smooth stop at an intersection when the light turned yellow. The nimrod behind me decided they weren’t going to wait the eternity of a couple of minutes, so they passed me on the right, then turned left in front of me and ran the red light, crossed three lanes of traffic and continued on their way.

I was very disappointed they didn’t get t-boned.

But here’s the really funny part. Less than two minutes later, I came up beside them. Stopped at a light, waiting to turn left again. See, that self-righteous the-rules-don’t-apply-to-me action didn’t do them a whole lot of good. Had they patiently waited their turn at the first light, behind me, they would have been in the same place. Running a red light didn’t get them any further along on their journey.

Think about this- by not coming to a complete stop at a posted STOP sign, you are shaving maybe two seconds off your trip. Two seconds. How many STOP signs will you have to run for this to add to a significant savings of time? Significant enough to counter the money a ticket is going to cost (and the ten minutes or more it will take an officer to write it)? And imagine the time lost if you get run into by trying to beat that light, or roll through that STOP sign.

One day though, your luck is going to run out,  and then your next stop is going to be your last:  the cemetary.

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