Red Light – Green Light
when i get off the highway late at night driving home from my job i always get struck at the same red light at exit 3 usually from down the highway i can see it's already red but when it's not it predictably won't stay green long enough for me to get there up the exit ramp and make it through it's a long red light meaning it's a short green light too making me curse both inside and out at its length on red feeling like a lifetime when i just wanna get home and there's no reason for sitting there that goddamned long when there's never anybody else around by my calculation that red light had to be long cause i always got stuck there cause if the green light that it changed to was just as long by calculation i ought to be getting stuck just half the time instead of most so one night as i approached and the light turned to red again i pulled out my phone and timed it turns out the light was only red for about a full minute so now when i hit that light knowing it's only a minute i'm less angry and the time just sitting there waiting with nobody else around even seems shorter but it still doesn't explain why i continue hitting that red light more often than not cause the green light going the other way surely isn't any shorter
mrobins71 