Stupid driving (and government) tricks

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Made a brief run down to Target in Sheboygan to return something. And it's a good thing I got back when I did, because shortly after I got home the sky slit open AGAIN.

If you want one word to describe this summer, it would be Monsoon. Hot and wet.

Anyhow, on the way down, on the interstate, I passed a guy in a silver car...texting while cruising along at 70 mph or so.

How considerate. There just aren't enough organ donors these days.

It's a good thing I got past this guy when I did, because before too long I ran into construction. It turns out that the PGA Championship this year is going to be at Whistling Straits, which is in this particular neck of the woods, and in anticipation of all the traffic coming to and going from this prestigious event, the DOT saw it fit to construct a new freeway interchange.

So miles and miles of orange signs, orange barrels, lane closures, and cops everywhere lurking about so they can nail speeders and hit them with double fines.

All this for an interchange that won't be completed in time for the PGA Championship, and will stay closed whenever there aren't any big gold tournaments going on at Whistling Straits.

Seriously, it looked like they weren't even half done. They had one ramp graded, but not paved yet.

[infinitemonkies]

As I was walking home this morning, I saw a texting soon-to-be organ donor.
Traffic was really heavy as all the daywalkers commute to work, and this woman is texting while riding her bicycle.
So, she's got her phone in one hand, the other hand on the handlebars, and keeps drifting right out into the middle of traffic. For the entire block or so that I observed her, I never once saw her look up from her phone. She went right through a red light too.
No helmet either, of course.

[Magpie]

As I was walking home this morning, I saw a texting soon-to-be organ donor.
Traffic was really heavy as all the daywalkers commute to work, and this woman is texting while riding her bicycle.
So, she's got her phone in one hand, the other hand on the handlebars, and keeps drifting right out into the middle of traffic. For the entire block or so that I observed her, I never once saw her look up from her phone. She went right through a red light too.
No helmet either, of course.

This morning I was watching some of the people on bikes, and wondering if they'd legally be able to require that people either show a driver's license (although we all know how much that means you know about the rules of the road) or else a "organ-donor" version of the health card. Because it would be a waste if one of these people had forgotten to sign up as an organ donor. (For non Canadians: organ donation is an opt-in programme here, you or your next-of-kin must actively agree to it. AFAIK your next-of-kin has final say, but you have to actively agree, it's not a "failure to object is agreement" setup here).

[Sapphire Silk]

This morning I was watching some of the people on bikes, and wondering if they'd legally be able to require that people either show a driver's license (although we all know how much that means you know about the rules of the road) or else a "organ-donor" version of the health card. Because it would be a waste if one of these people had forgotten to sign up as an organ donor. (For non Canadians: organ donation is an opt-in programme here, you or your next-of-kin must actively agree to it. AFAIK your next-of-kin has final say, but you have to actively agree, it's not a "failure to object is agreement" setup here).

Depends on what state you're in. In North Carolina, if you are an organ donor, your family has no say (although the transplant coordinators try really hard to get the family to consent anyway, out of sensitivity to their feelings).

[Magpie]

I know that it used to be that in Ontario you just got a little paper card to sign, but it wasn't legally enforcible. Now that they're coding it into your health cards (I don't know when that started - I still had the one I got as a baby, I only got a new one because I assumed my husband's name), I'm not sure that it's still the next-of-kin's choice.

[BlaqueKatt]

Made a brief run down to Target in Sheboygan to return something.

you realize I and about 900 other cyclists were in the fair city of Sheboygan on saturday the 24th of July-if you saw a girl with a long braid, on a Grey Fuji, with a purple and black argyle jersey and black cycling skirt, with a black helmet and number 771 on her back-it was me

[crazylegs]

Anyhow, on the way down, on the interstate, I passed a guy in a silver car...texting while cruising along at 70 mph or so.

How considerate. There just aren't enough organ donors these days.

I would like to point out that following an RTC at that speed the vast majority of your organs would be too damaged to be transplanted...