First off, I am not a good gambler. I can't stand the thought of parting with my money on a whim.
But, I have picked some winning horses on impulse. Like the one that danced all the way to the gate. He won. And the one whose tongue was hanging out his mouth like a dog's. He won. Sometimes I decide because of it's color or it's name. I pick 2 horses for each race and one time they came in 1st and 2nd. This is all on TV horse races, of course. I have never been to a real betting horse race.
But, with my address and phone number, (303 and 3033), you would think I could come up with a combination of three's that would win the lottery. I haven't tried because I figure it would just be more money joining what I have already lost. Should I get reckless and risk a dollar?
No! If you really want to win big money on a lottery, you have to pick numbers higher than 31 because so many people use birthdates and calendar dates. Now if your lucky number was 52 or something... go for it. (Don't you dare.) I have done very well at the track but I rarely go, study the horses and riders and never bet more than a set limit that I can afford to lose. Now that we're retired and the income is down I don't place real bets any longer.
Good girl. I would like to have the satisfaction of knowing that I could pick a winner by studying the horse, but that will never be.
I am a gambler. Most days I gamble pretty big, as I get out on U.S. 400 twice a day 5 days a week. It is quite a gamble with your life on that road!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ;)
You're right on that one, Sally. I can see a need for four lanes on 400 every time I go to Wichita. I can't believe the string of cars we meet going either way.
Yes I see the need for four lanes but isn't it a whole safer now then when it was US-96 a narrow two lane blacktop road?
Much safer. At least you have some place to go when a car is coming at you in your lane.
Speaking of US-400, can someone (Janet?) explain the rules of the passing lanes? It seems as though a LOT of people can't read the sign that says "KEEP RIGHT EXCEPT TO PASS", which says to me that you HAVE to drive in the right-hand lane unless you are passing someone. If you also notice, the oncoming traffic lane DOES have the right to PASS, and use that center lane to do so. It makes me pretty nervous when I'm headed East and need to pass someone and there is an oncoming car in their far right lane, but I understand that it is legal for me to go ahead and pass, correct? What if someone is in the center lane headed West (and not in their far right lane like they're supposed to be) and someone from the East tries to pass another car and they get into a wreck... who's fault is it?
I would say the person who is left of the center line is in the wrong as they are not supposed to pass unless the way is clear and if there is a car in the lane they have to use for passing, the way is not clear. As for people not staying right except for passing, I don't know if there is a law, but if there is, then they are illegal, too.
Around here we have a few three lane roads with that "suicide lane" in the center. And yes, you MUST stay in the right lane unless you are passing or making a left turn. If a person is driving straight through in the center lane and something happened, it would be charged to them....but then try to prove it. We have some odd ones too. What would you do if you came up to a flashing green light?
A flashing GREEN LIGHT????? I have never encountered that --
smart a - - answer....assume there was a short in the wiring circuit???? sorry, could not resist.
Really, Diane, what would be the reason for a flashing green light -- other that that road/street had the right of way?
Does it mean that you are approaching an intersection where the pedesterians will have the right of way, when they activiate the button? So, you slow down, let them go across the street, then the light will start flashing green again, and you can proceed.
When you are going west to Wichita and come to those stay right except to pass signs, it is the laws that you stay right excep to pass. If you are passing someone who is in the right lane and someone is coming at you passing someone and they are in your lane, they are at fault. Even though the markings say they can pass, they can only do so if the way is clear. Now if someone is in that passing lane and not passing anyone and the other person hits them because they are trying to pass going east bound, the east bound car would be at fault, because you cannot pass unless they way is clear.
Isn't that what I said? I have learned something from being Janet's mother.
Back to the flashing green light.....Come On, Diane --- and the answer is ______________???????
Yeah, Diane. ??? ???
If there is a flashing green light, you are supposed to expect side traffic that might try to cross you or turn right or do something...It's totally ridiculous! I always thought that's what flashing yellow was for. Out of state drivers have no idea what they are supposed to do.
One would think under the uniform traffic laws, a flashing green would be legal in all states?
Does anyone remember when there were no uniform traffic laws and each state went its own way and did its own thing?
Uniform laws or code applicable to all states were passed in the late forties or early fifties standardizing everything including hand signals.
Most younger folks probably do not know that at one time a driver had to signal a right turn by sticking his left arm out an open window (summer or freezing winter) and thrusting it straight up in the air. As near as I can remember, the arm when straight out to signal a left. If slowing down, the arm when straight down.
Even these hand signals were different. Missouri and Kansas differed in left and slow but were the same for turning right. Many times, drivers did not bother to signal if the weather was bad.
Missouri had the yellow no passing stripe down the middle of the driving lane rather than at the median. Kansas had the stripe at the median.
I also recall traffic lights in which red were on the bottom, yellow in middle, and green on top. Others were red on top, green on bottom, and no yellow.
There were also horizontal traffic lights with red on the left, yellow in the middle, and green on the right.
At one time, at the then extremely dangerous corner of Rose Hill Road and US 54, the red lights on US 54 had a small open slit. When the light turned red, inside that slit was a high intensity brilliant flashing white strobe light that could be seen for a long way off as a way of warning drivers about the intersection. Those red lights are now gone replaced by the traditional type.
The only other place I ever saw such a red light was in Alabama a few years ago.
Many drivers don't bother to signal now and they can't blame it on bad weather.
That is one of my pet peeves. We have middle turn lanes here and people get out in one with no turn
signal and then seem mad because the rest of us can't figure out where they want to go.
Quote from: W. Gray on November 05, 2007, 04:35:40 PM
At one time, at the then extremely dangerous corner of Rose Hill Road and US 54, the red lights on US 54 had a small open slit. When the light turned red, inside that slit was a high intensity brilliant flashing white strobe light that could be seen for a long way off as a way of warning drivers about the intersection. Those red lights are now gone replaced by the traditional type.
The only other place I ever saw such a red light was in Alabama a few years ago.
They have a light like that at a bad intersection over in Dodge City that was the only place I had ever seen one and thought it was a good idea they need to be in a few more places