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Amazing Invisible Cones!
I saw the most bizarre thing on the way to work this morning. I was
driving on city streets, in Reston, Virginia. As I came to a red light I stopped with several cars in front of me, but still had a pretty clear view of the opposing direction of traffic. The street was two lanes in each direction with both right and left turn pockets. At the front of the line coming back toward me, in the left-hand straight lane, there was a VDOT or road-worker's truck. A guy hopped off it and placed a cone in the middle of the left turn pocket, just behind the crosswalk. As he was doing this, a couple of cars behind him pulled over into the turn lane. Since he placed a cone directly in front of the first car, and she didn't seem at all bothered, this caught my attention, so I looked more. As I went through the intersection, I noticed that the entire left-turn pocket was coned off but there were about 6 cars in it. I'm pretty sure that the cars at the end of the line didn't realize that the first car had a cone smack-dab in front of her, but surely they noticed the cones running along between the lanes! Apparently every one of them squeezed between the cones and pulled into the turn lane. As their light turned green, the work truck threw on it's signal to make a right turn (from the left lane, of course) and nearly got hit by a van behind it as it crossed in front of two lanes of traffic to make it's turn. I SOOOO wanted to just park and watch and see what they were going to do, but I had to get to work. I wonder how long it took them to get out of the coned-off area... - Sharon "Gravity... is a harsh mistress!" |
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