Oddities while driving
Friday, on my way to work, I'm just crossing the tollway and going around a slight curve when I can see a bunch of cars stopped in the middle of the street, both oncoming traffic and then one truck going my direction, in the other lane. The truck had the thought to put its blinkers on, which was wise. I could see some sort of movement between the cars, and as I got closer, here comes this goose booking it across the street! Normally, when geese cross the street, they do it in a very turtle-ish fashion, slowly, having no cares, except to hiss at you if you dare to look at them funny. This one was late, was late, for a very important date, no time to say hello, goodbye! I've just never seen a goose walk that fast before. This is one of those times that a dashcam would've been good to have. As I got closer to the action, I saw why--a second goose was already waiting on the curb. Aha. The goose really was late for a lunch date!
Then yesterday, I'm sitting at an intersection waiting for the light to change. I'll occasionally watch the lights to see when they change, to know it's almost my turn to go. Was I surprised to see the light go straight from green to red, no yellow--and then start flashing. Uh-oh. I've never seen that happen where there wasn't a crew working on the electrical box by the intersection, or where there wasn't an accident. I almost thought the emergency light was going to turn on, because the fire station is just down the road from there, but no; it was just a random four-way stop. Bizarre. Those of us stuck at the intersection were like, so, what do we do now... We just sort of stood there for a minute. I had a car waiting to turn left next to me, so I couldn't see if there was any cross traffic to my left. There was a car waiting to turn left on my right as part of cross traffic, and ultimately that car made the turn, and the car next to me and I then went where we needed to go, and after that traffic was fine. (Well, okay, until I got to work and discovered the business next door to the back building was either receiving some sort of very large shipment or else packing the entire place up, because there was one semi in their dock area and two parked perpendicular in our parking spots, and all that business' workers were parked across the way in the front building's parking spots, and I'm like, where the heck am I gonna park? There ended up being space for me to park in a back building spot, but that then blocked the one semi from moving--not that I cared in that exact moment; I did glare a bit at the two drivers just standing around. When I left work yesterday, one semi was gone, but two semis were still there. Wow, what are they doing?)
Then yesterday, I'm sitting at an intersection waiting for the light to change. I'll occasionally watch the lights to see when they change, to know it's almost my turn to go. Was I surprised to see the light go straight from green to red, no yellow--and then start flashing. Uh-oh. I've never seen that happen where there wasn't a crew working on the electrical box by the intersection, or where there wasn't an accident. I almost thought the emergency light was going to turn on, because the fire station is just down the road from there, but no; it was just a random four-way stop. Bizarre. Those of us stuck at the intersection were like, so, what do we do now... We just sort of stood there for a minute. I had a car waiting to turn left next to me, so I couldn't see if there was any cross traffic to my left. There was a car waiting to turn left on my right as part of cross traffic, and ultimately that car made the turn, and the car next to me and I then went where we needed to go, and after that traffic was fine. (Well, okay, until I got to work and discovered the business next door to the back building was either receiving some sort of very large shipment or else packing the entire place up, because there was one semi in their dock area and two parked perpendicular in our parking spots, and all that business' workers were parked across the way in the front building's parking spots, and I'm like, where the heck am I gonna park? There ended up being space for me to park in a back building spot, but that then blocked the one semi from moving--not that I cared in that exact moment; I did glare a bit at the two drivers just standing around. When I left work yesterday, one semi was gone, but two semis were still there. Wow, what are they doing?)