I hate the Mira Mesa Blvd at Black Mountain Rd and Westview Parkway lights. It seems like those lights have slightly short yellows. They “love to” turn yellow just when I am too close to stop without throwing every loose thing in the car into the windshield; but just far enough away that I have to gun it to make it through the yellow light. I hate being mousetrapped like that. I’m still watching the mailbox in case one of those times I got “flashed”.

I hate to slow down for the lights when they’re still green– it annoys the drivers behind me and I feel like a real doofus if the light stays green the whole time I go through it.

It’s better when the crosswalk signal is still flashing the red hand and numbers; that way I know I still have a little time but better get through there. It’s when the light is green but the crosswalk is just the plain red hand… that’s when I’m really not sure how much time I have until the yellow.

Funniest was when my housemate was driving the big slow truck from his work through one of those intersections while I rode shotgun. The light turned yellow just as he got to it. No way he could stop that big boat in time. So he sailed through the intersection giving the light a two-handed middle finger salute. Bet that looked good on the cameras.