Red lights

This evening as I was rushing home to a scrumptious dinner of BBQ ribs, mini squash casserole, and corn on the cob, I came upon the traffic light at the intersection of Cornwallis and Fayetteville Street. Ever since the construction began on the new Lowe’s Home Improvement being built at that location, that intersection has been very taxing on my patience. It takes a long time to finally get through a green light.
As I was rapidly approaching a yellow light there (and whenever I am rapidly approaching any yellow light), I thought back to what my dear friend Kristin once told me.
“It is much more worth your time to run a yellow/red light than it is to actually speed,” she confidently told me over Easter break my freshman year in college. Kristin is what I’d call an expert. She is probably the only person I know who has gotten more speeding tickets than myself. Kristin is also very good at math. She has done written calculations of what saves more time on the road – speeding or running red lights. And folks, the verdict is in. Running yellow/red lights always wins.
I have attended one or two or three traffic classes (as punishment for speeding violations) in my day. They confirmed that speeding really doesn’t get you to your location much earlier. You might as well just accept your tardiness.
But yellow lights – run ‘em all you want.
Just thought I’d share my tiny bit of knowledge.