Not my fault

If you're tuning in for a baby update, sorry, but this is one of my little observations. This one brings to mind the quote from Einstein, "the difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits."

I'm finding the deteriorating quality of drivers rather humorous but that's probably since none of them have rammed my car or bike or person lately. Since it's no longer winter, near where I used to live there is construction which has closed a main road out of downtown. Busses are still allowed through; taking turns using one lane. Even though the detour, construction and do not enter sign start seven blocks before the road closure, lots of people believe these signs don't apply to them. As I ride the bus through that zone, I take a sadistic pleasure seeing the police inform them with a small piece of paper that those signs do indeed apply to them. I wonder what excuse these people have for obviously disobeying signs. At least with the carpool lane, those signs are high overhead and not easy to understand. I'm sure that's why I still see about 70% of the vehilces in that lane driven by single people, alone in their SUVs, unable to comprehend that little sign under which they might drive about 230 times a year. It's sad that most of the people who got a ticket for driving through the construction zone will end up in court, trying to explain why they thought it was okay to drive where mostly busses were driving, past all the signs telling them to change their way. Most of those people will have their fine reduced by a judge, lawyer or some clerk of the court; thus ensuring that our courts will remain clogged and police with remain in those courts defending their quota of tickets because people know they can save a wad of cash just by showing up with a fabricated story. CBC had an excellent example on The Fifth Estate about a man who's still driving very dangerously despite multiple traffic offences. I've also heard stories of drunk drivers getting off because they're alcoholics. It's not their fault they drove drunk; they're an alcoholic. You'd think the first step of admitting you're an alcoholic would be followed by the second step of having your driver's licence ripped up.