So a good portion of the city was still without power on friday. At least the weather was nice this week, but that’s small comfort to people going on day 6 with no lights.
Columbus city schools opened friday for the first time of the week. The news mentioned that on thursday evening about every 3 minutes, and kept reminding all of us idiots to watch out for them, especially at the intersections where the lights are out. The implication being that we know you're all shiatty drivers but we need you to straighten up just this once because the kids will be out there, and this is SERIOUS because it’s dangerous with all the non working traffic signals. It’s so serious that the police will have officers at every single intersection with no working lights to help the little snowflakes get across.
So friday morning, I pulled up to the one light that was still out on my commute. It's a busy intersection downtown (Broad & Washington). All the traffic is treating it like a 4 way stop intersection - with the exception of one vehicle driving down Broad St. in the opposite direction from me. It gets closer, and I realize it’s not stopping. It blows right on through the other stopped traffic and the intersection, not even flinching – luckily the car on Washington was paying attention. Now, that’s bad enough, when people are so self absorbed that they don’t even notice or question why everyone around them is stopping.
The best part? The miscreant was driving a large, yellow vehicle, with ‘Columbus City Schools’ painted on the side, and I’m sure a few rows’ worth of children on board. Yep. And no police anywhere to be seen. Well, at least the children are safe. Except maybe the ones on that driver’s route.
Columbus city schools opened friday for the first time of the week. The news mentioned that on thursday evening about every 3 minutes, and kept reminding all of us idiots to watch out for them, especially at the intersections where the lights are out. The implication being that we know you're all shiatty drivers but we need you to straighten up just this once because the kids will be out there, and this is SERIOUS because it’s dangerous with all the non working traffic signals. It’s so serious that the police will have officers at every single intersection with no working lights to help the little snowflakes get across.
So friday morning, I pulled up to the one light that was still out on my commute. It's a busy intersection downtown (Broad & Washington). All the traffic is treating it like a 4 way stop intersection - with the exception of one vehicle driving down Broad St. in the opposite direction from me. It gets closer, and I realize it’s not stopping. It blows right on through the other stopped traffic and the intersection, not even flinching – luckily the car on Washington was paying attention. Now, that’s bad enough, when people are so self absorbed that they don’t even notice or question why everyone around them is stopping.
The best part? The miscreant was driving a large, yellow vehicle, with ‘Columbus City Schools’ painted on the side, and I’m sure a few rows’ worth of children on board. Yep. And no police anywhere to be seen. Well, at least the children are safe. Except maybe the ones on that driver’s route.
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