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Playing in Traffic

Originally Posted Wednesday, 29 October 2014 at 01:50 PM
Updated Monday, 05 September 2016 at 06:43 PM

Drive on through the fu@#ing light.

You owe more to the 5 or 15 cars behind you than you do to the one oncoming car making a left turn -- a car that will be able to complete the turn anyway, after your lane of traffic clears the intersection.

If you're in a lane of traffic and there are cars behind you, don't hold up the entire line for someone trying to enter from the side. It may fulfill some egalitarian sense of courtesy, but you're inconveniencing some ... or several ... or many drivers behind you, who can't go anywhere until YOU're out of their way.

Unthinking, idiot drivers!

About The Author

Richard B. Barger, ABC, APR

Richard B. Barger, ABC, APR, is well-positioned as CornerBarPR's Chief Curmudgeon; he's our version of Andy Rooney -- loves words, particularly loves to complain about idiocy.

In his spare time, Rich runs the inventively named Barger Consulting, where he conducts strategic communications planning and research, and gives people advice whether they want it or not.

Through the years, Rich has tricked unsuspecting folks into giving him positions as managing editor of the public relations division of a 180-person agency, and as a wire service editor, an economic analyst, a federal investigator, and, bless his little muddy boots, a farmer. Really. He fancies himself a pretty fair country editor and at one time was famous among about half a dozen people as "The Voice of IABC."

At various points in what passes for a career, he's done time as a member of IABC, PRSA, and NSPRA, as well as the Gifted Association of Missouri, the University of Missouri Alumni Association, the Council of Better Business Bureaus (as a Senior Arbitrator), and a handful of church choirs.

Known as "Boom-Boom Barger" in Marching Mizzou, Rich refuses to answer the phone during University of Missouri football or basketball games, plays a hard-edged game of bridge, and is married to a woman he doesn't like to talk about much, because she's smarter and much nicer than he is.

Barger's motto: "Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once."