Anyone?
Somebody?
Please, is there someone out there willing and able to enforce stop signs?
It appears I am the only person on the face of the Earth who obeys these red octagons by coming to a complete stop.
Even most police cars I see, tend to roll through.
While walking our dogs, I am compelled to yell at drivers who don’t even slow down; they just drive right through stop signs as though the posted octagon is purely optional.
Behind the wheel is another story entirely.
The way I learned it, when two vehicles arrive at an intersection at the same time, the vehicle that makes a complete stop first, has the right of way and can leave first. That’s what I expect to happen and it $%#@&* never does.
Thoroughly infuriating.
As a result, when behind the wheel, I am compelled to honk my horn at drivers who don’t do a full stop.
That has led to road rage behavior by drivers I honk at, which is messed up.
I am convinced that if some diligent police jurisdiction enforced stop signs and collected fines from drivers, we would be able to rid ourselves of municipal taxes and, just a few short weeks later, income tax.
Should I simply wallow in my learned helplessness and, as a rule, start doing American stops?
If you can’t beat them, join them?
Hey, you jerks out there…the red octagon is not optional.
Apparently, enforcing it is.
