[graciegirl]

If you honk your horn .003 seconds after the light turns green, I will get out of my car, lay across the hood and feed birds for an hour.

[bilcon]

Maybe they thought you fell asleep and were just trying to wake you up.

[DonH57]

There are those that wait to see if the light will get greener.

[jchase]

Somebody having a bad day?

[l2ridehd]

The US wastes over 1 billion barrels of oil each year due to an addiction to texting. What you say? Because when people stop at a traffic light they immediately grab their phone and start texting. (ADDICTION) So when the light changes instead of 12 cars getting through the light, only 5 or 6 do. And the other 7 sit there idling and probably texting until the light changes again wasting gas.

So Every time I see someone at a light not going when it changes or leaves a huge gap between them and the car in front of them, I will blow the horn as 95% of them are texting.

Sorry Gracie I usually agree with you, but being concerned about our carbon foot print there is a requirement to blow the horn and get these addicts moving.

[John_W]

It's called a New York Second, the time between the light turning green and the sound of a horn behind you.

[aninjamom]

I know where you can get some birdseed.

[Rapscallion St Croix]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

If you honk your horn .003 seconds after the light turns green, I will get out of my car, lay across the hood and feed birds for an hour.

Whoa......birds can fly 80mph and eat while doing so?

[Chi-Town]

In Chicago you count to three before starting up to allow for the cars blowing through the red light.

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[600th Photo Sq]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

If you honk your horn .003 seconds after the light turns green, I will get out of my car, lay across the hood and feed birds for an hour.

Someone may come along and " Spank You "

[Abby10]

Originally Posted by Chi-Town

In Chicago you count to three before starting up to allow for the cars blowing through the red light.

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Experienced this yesterday, not in TV but here up north. Was at a traffic light that had turned green and didn't blow my horn but wondered why the SUV in front of me wasn't moving. In a split second, I then watched as a truck with attached trailer blow through the red light at a very high rate of speed. If that SUV was not in front of me, I may not have noticed and proceeded immediately when the light turned green. And if the SUV had gone and I followed, well that could have been a very tragic accident.

Sometimes you just have to look upward and say, "Thank you".

Moral of the story - I may start taking your advice from now. Let the impatient drivers behind me blow their horn.

[John_W]

I had an experience somewhat like that in the 80's in Savannah. I was northbound on Abercorn, which is a 6 lane divided highway that starts at I-95 and runs all the way downtown. I was in the suburbs in the left turn lane but was going to make a U-turn to go back to a store. Being in the turn lane it triggered the arrow on my light. When I got the arrow and started my turn and completed my U-turn into the middle lane of the 3 lanes. A car that had to be doing 60 mph and was going through the red on the other side blew by me in the third or outside lane. Had I made a regular left turn I probably would of met that car in a t-bone situation, but by turning completely left and only going to the second lane, we missed by about 3 feet and I still remember to this day what almost happened.

[JoMar]

Originally Posted by l2ridehd

The US wastes over 1 billion barrels of oil each year due to an addiction to texting. What you say? Because when people stop at a traffic light they immediately grab their phone and start texting. (ADDICTION) So when the light changes instead of 12 cars getting through the light, only 5 or 6 do. And the other 7 sit there idling and probably texting until the light changes again wasting gas.

So Every time I see someone at a light not going when it changes or leaves a huge gap between them and the car in front of them, I will blow the horn as 95% of them are texting.

Sorry Gracie I usually agree with you, but being concerned about our carbon foot print there is a requirement to blow the horn and get these addicts moving.

another impatient approach to TV retired drivers.....if someone blows their horn behind me immediately when the light turns green I move, as slowly as I can. They want to be a pain in my butt, I will be a pain in theirs. As far as that helping the environment....big BS

[ColdNoMore]

Some people's sense of time...is not nearly as honed as others.


After quickly looking for red light runners, I'll usually give an honest three seconds...before giving a short honk.

[Dawn H]

Exactly...Maryland too. Only been here 5 weeks and have seen 2 vehicles blow through red. I will take those seconds to be safe.