May 26, 2003
4 Way Stops
What is so hard about negotiating a four-way stop sign?
Again and again you hear about the shitty way people drive in Vegas. About the lack of consideration, the rude gestures, the blown red lights, the speeding or crawling, and the general disregard for the rest of the world.
I know that life is very complicated in the New Information Age, however, I just cannot figure out what is so damn difficult about the following concept:
1. The first person to arrive gets to go first
2. If two people arrive at the same time, the person on the right gets to go first.
3. Through traffic goes before turning traffic.
Thats it. No secret science or decoder ring needed. I don't think that people are too stupid to understand these concepts. What I do think it is can be summed up in one word: Cellular. Yes, cellular technology has halted the progress of peoples brains even further than ever thought possible. It's bad enough that folks are putting their make-up on, eating a ham sandwich, scratching their balls, picking their nose, or even reading a newspaper. Put someone on the phone and the rest of the world around them seems to become a gray hazy zone of infinite nothingness where only they and the lucky bastard on the other end of the line exist..
The only excusable reason for not being able to negotiate a simple stop sign is if you are on the recieving end of blowjob while driving. So for you smiling bastaads....my hats off to you. The rest of the world needs to hang up and get back to basics.

