11 green lights!!!

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Wed May 02, 2007 10:56 am

I went through 11 traffic lights on my drive home from my gf's. One of them twice, because I turned at it into the video store, so had to go through it again to get back on the road. Every single light was green!!! This doesn't mean the same thing to most people that it does to me. To say I don't get many green lights is something of an understatement. I have literally amazed people with my ability to get red lights. It even works if I'm a passenger in their car. One woman didn't know anything about this... "ability" of mine, and said, "Why am I getting so many red lights?!?!?" To get 11 in a row... And 11 out of 11... I know it sounds like a lame topic, but I'm telling you, something happened last night. Somewhere in the world, something else must have happened. I hope something good, but I suspect something bad, to balance with me.

Post by **Usivius** » Wed May 02, 2007 12:01 pm

It's funny how moments like this stick with you, or are considered a milestone or something.
It happened to me too, about 10 years ago.
Normally the drive from my house to my parents is about 20-25 minutes, depending on traffic, and access to a highway I breifly get on to bypass the middle of the city. In all, there are <mentally calculating> about 10 lights. One day I managed the drive home form my parents in 11 minutes, getting all the nasty lights green. I still remember it to this day.
It's amazing how wonderful a journey can be when it is uninterrupted (when you normally expect it to be..)

But, Fist, you beat me by one light ...

Post by **Avatar** » Wed May 02, 2007 12:02 pm

I suppose it would be too much to hope your run of luck continues.

Me, I'm a lucky kinda guy.

Should appreciate it more.

--A

YouTube · Post by **Menolly** » Wed May 02, 2007 12:08 pm

As Paul use to say when he would smash his Brain Bowl and College Bowl competition out of the water, you were in the Zone, Fist. I hope it continues for you!

Post by **TIC TAC** » Wed May 02, 2007 3:33 pm

I'd be nice if this happend to me more often. I seem to also be a magnet for red lights. Congrats Fist!

Post by **matrixman** » Wed May 02, 2007 3:37 pm

F&F: "What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge red lights?"
Morpheus: "No. What I'm trying to tell you is that when you're ready, you won't have to."

*bows to Fist*

Post by **High Lord Tolkien** » Wed May 02, 2007 3:45 pm

I don't have issues with lights that much.
But sometime the invisible button in my car gets stuck.
I'll be driving along and someone will cut me off.
Then it happens again a few moments later.
When it happens again after that I realize that, yes, my car is invisible when it shouldn't be.

Post by **CovenantJr** » Wed May 02, 2007 4:15 pm

Matrixman wrote:F&F: "What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge red lights?"
Morpheus: "No. What I'm trying to tell you is that when you're ready, you won't have to."

*bows to Fist*

Post by **balon!** » Wed May 02, 2007 7:48 pm

Dude! I feel the same way! My family has this curse, we call it the Amadeau Curse. Basically my great Uncle Amadeau was REALLY crotchity when he was alive, and my Dad got his old truckster. It had a double curse on it.

Every so often this really loud anoyying "BEEP" would go off. We spent six years looking for that damn beep and we could never find it.

The second part was WAY worse. We would be driving up to a T crossraods, and for the last couple of miles, we could see no cars going across our path at the T. The, as soon as we got there, there would be a frickin caravan! One time we got stuck there for fifteen frickin' mintues! Every so often though, we'll get lucky and turn RIGHT before the curse catches up to us.

So, yeah, I know how you feel. Good luck in vehicles isn't my fortay, either.

Post by **Phantasm** » Wed May 02, 2007 8:18 pm

There are 10 sets of traffic lights on the way to work, and I've only managed to catch them all at green once in the 8 years I've been down here, so hats off to anyone who can manage 11.

Where I used to live, I could make it to work without hitting one red light, every day. (there were no traffic lights

)

Post by **drew** » Wed May 02, 2007 9:39 pm

Meh..you just blow your horn and drive through them anyways.

Post by **CovenantJr** » Thu May 03, 2007 12:27 am

drew wrote:Meh..you just blow your horn and drive through them anyways.

Unless they've got cameras on them...

Post by **balon!** » Thu May 03, 2007 1:31 am

CovenantJr wrote:
drew wrote:Meh..you just blow your horn and drive through them anyways.
Unless they've got cameras on them...

Yeah, then you need to make sure you drive really fast.

Post by **Elfgirl** » Thu May 03, 2007 2:06 am

Traffic lights are my pet hate too, Fist! I try the 'will it green' trick - sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I'm a 'traffic dodger' from way back - mainly to get 'pole position' at lights! And usually because the dickhead who invariably is in front of me (Volvos or SUVs are the worst!) are asleep at the wheel when it turns green & don't move for ages and when they do, they CRAWL over the line as if they have no accelerator to speak of!!

Slow drivers, inattentive drivers are the bane of my existence...

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Thu May 03, 2007 2:46 am

Elfgirl wrote:And usually because the dickhead who invariably is in front of me (Volvos or SUVs are the worst!) are asleep at the wheel when it turns green & don't move for ages and when they do, they CRAWL over the line as if they have no accelerator to speak of!!

Slow drivers, inattentive drivers are the bane of my existence...

I KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!! MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! People!!!!! When you're first in line at a red light, it is your RESPONSIBILITY to freakin' pay attention!!!! Where do you get off reaching into the back seat or on the floor instead of watching the light!!!!!!!!! ARGH!!!!! And then there's the old drivers. I swear I can hear their brains going through the steps:
-"Oh! The light just turned green. Here we go."
-"Now I'll take my foot off the brake."
-"Now, calmly, I'll move my foot over, so it's above the gas pedal."
-"And now I'll gently make contact with the gas pedal."
-"OK, eeeaaasy now, I'll begin applying pressure. Not too fast!!! Don't want to make any mistakes! There's pleeeeeeeeeeeenty of time."

Balon wrote:Dude! I feel the same way! My family has this curse, we call it the Amadeau Curse. Basically my great Uncle Amadeau was REALLY crotchity when he was alive, and my Dad got his old truckster. It had a double curse on it.

Every so often this really loud anoyying "BEEP" would go off. We spent six years looking for that damn beep and we could never find it.

Actually, that's kinda cool!

Balon wrote:The second part was WAY worse. We would be driving up to a T crossraods, and for the last couple of miles, we could see no cars going across our path at the T. The, as soon as we got there, there would be a frickin caravan! One time we got stuck there for fifteen frickin' mintues! Every so often though, we'll get lucky and turn RIGHT before the curse catches up to us.

Dude, we are twins seperated at birth.

Matrixman wrote:F&F: "What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge red lights?"
Morpheus: "No. What I'm trying to tell you is that when you're ready, you won't have to."

*bows to Fist*

Nice! Veeeeeeeeeeeeery nice!!!

(BTW, I watched all the movies last week.

)

MAYOR OF SIMPLETON wrote:I'd be nice if this happend to me more often. I seem to also be a magnet for red lights. Congrats Fist!

Thank you!

Menolly wrote:As Paul use to say when he would smash his Brain Bowl and College Bowl competition out of the water, you were in the Zone, Fist. I hope it continues for you!

And thank you too!

Avatar wrote: I suppose it would be too much to hope your run of luck continues. Me, I'm a lucky kinda guy. Should appreciate it more.

I seem to remember you saying this before. Good luck is a mythical beast. "If I didn't have bad luck, I'd have no luck at all." I'm also very proficient at tuning in a radio station and hearing the last 10 seconds of a fantastic song.

Post by **Wyldewode** » Thu May 03, 2007 3:34 am

Yay! I'm glad something good like that happened for you.

Post by **Avatar** » Thu May 03, 2007 5:20 am

I've got 50km and 12 robots (we call them robots ok?

) on the way to work. Didn't stop once today from leaving home to arriving. I mean, I notice when it happens, but it's just not so unusual as to be remarkable. *shrug*

Still, I never rely[/] on being lucky. That's asking for it I think.

--A

Post by **CovenantJr** » Thu May 03, 2007 11:13 am

Fist and Faith wrote:People!!!!! When you're first in line at a red light, it is your RESPONSIBILITY to freakin' pay attention!!!! Where do you get off reaching into the back seat or on the floor instead of watching the light!!!!!!!!! ARGH!!!!! And then there's the old drivers. I swear I can hear their brains going through the steps:
-"Oh! The light just turned green. Here we go."
-"Now I'll take my foot off the brake."
-"Now, calmly, I'll move my foot over, so it's above the gas pedal."
-"And now I'll gently make contact with the gas pedal."
-"OK, eeeaaasy now, I'll begin applying pressure. Not too fast!!! Don't want to make any mistakes! There's pleeeeeeeeeeeenty of time."

Damn straight! My car accelerates like a dead cow, but I still get held up by people who are slow off the lights. Grrr.

Post by **Usivius** » Thu May 03, 2007 12:26 pm

geez, we never have a problem with slow drivers in TO... the drivers I dislike with a passion are the speedy-I-can-weave-through-traffic-like-I-own-the-frik'n-place people.

And worse than the B.I.F. drivers (Brute Ignorance & Force) are the indecisive drivers... the ones that think they may wish to pull out in front of you or not but maybe yes but without the turn signal or turn on the signal and wimp out and move a few centimeters then stop......
GGRRR!!!!

Post by **CovenantJr** » Thu May 03, 2007 3:01 pm

Usivius wrote:And worse than the B.I.F. drivers (Brute Ignorance & Force) are the indecisive drivers... the ones that think they may wish to pull out in front of you or not but maybe yes but without the turn signal or turn on the signal and wimp out and move a few centimeters then stop......
GGRRR!!!!

Yeah, they're a pain. My driving instructor always said "decide what you're going to do, and commit to doing it, even if it turns out to be wrong". At least that way everyone knows where they stand.

What tends to bug me on the drive to college in rush hour is the 'sprint-amble' drivers. My car is about ten years old, and certain drivers - mostly in BWMs and Audis, I've noticed - can't bear to be seen behind an old car like mine, so they overtake me...and immediately slow down, so I have to pull out and overtake them in order to continue driving at the same speed as before. Why overtake me in the first place if you're going to drive more slowly than me?

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11 green lights!!!

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