Driving Las Vegas Style

Where did all these drivers come from? And where did they learn how to drive?

Select the Best Answer . Another quiz question tomorrow
Driving Rules for Las Vegas

When on the freeway in order to move from the fast lane to the off ramp
A. Suddenly notice that your exit is in sight and you're in the fast lane. Shut your eyes and move as quickly from one lane to the other as you can ignoring the honking and screeching tires.
B. Put on your blinker, wait for traffic to clear and move from one lane to another (requires planning in advance)
C Shift your cell phone to your left hand so you can steer better. Glance and see that if you hurry you can cut off one car in each lane without losing your connection.
D. You are already in the slow lane doing 55 mph. Slow down to 50 to exit at the appropriate speed. Wave at the happy drivers who can now drive the speed limit in the slow lane.
E. Stay off the freeway, it's too dangerous. The surface streets are safer.
F. Don't drive on I-15. That's where all the big pile-ups happen. Once on the freeway, don't exit until you run out of gas.

Driving Las Vegas

As I coast down 95 south, watching out for nhp, I hear they're out looking for speeders, my mind rounds on Omaha, Christmas Shopping Mall, Thursday. I shiver as the heat pours out of the vents. I don't ask why, there is no answer. I don't ask because every answer would be different and yet, the same.

It could happen anywhere, there, here, somewhere else. The malls are full, shoppers run around looking for the ultimate gift that will do what nothing else can, or has, done before; invoke love. In the midst who of us will not stop and shiver and think.

The Ticket

Oh, BTW the story is fictitious, the process is not.

Liven UNLV

It's the end of the semester, I've been pondering the results of the continuing sage of the return to court to change the plea to guilty and this quote fell right out of my textbook, a book I have been reading all semester with nothing out of the ordinary exhibiting signs of life.

Here it is, "...should ethical decisions be based on the consequences of such decisions, or on the fulfillment of a duty." Sharon Merriam. p 282. The Profession and Practice of Adult Education. The quote is talking about ethics and the field of Adult Education. I borrow it here as I reflect on the continuing story of, going to court.

The day of Court arrived, and the judge seemed amiable, more amicable, this time. He frowned when looked up,

"What are you doing here again?" > "I'm chainging my plea." < "Why?" > "I don't have enough money to pay the bail to contest the charge." < "If I reduce the bail will you fight the ticke?" < "Yes." < "Can you pay $250 by the first of January?" < "Yes." < "Okay."

Was it an ethical decision to change the plea due to the amount of the bail?
You decide
Was it a fulfillment of a duty to agree to fight the ticket when the bail was reduced?
On you.
So, to answer the question, is it possible to answer it?

More to follow.....

Driving in Las Vegas

This can be a horrible or humorous experience, depending on where and when you are driving.

Example:

You're taking the 95 South to Henderson at 5 pm on a Wednesday. Traffic slows at the new spaghetti bowl in Henderson. It's frustratingly slow, everyone wants to get somewhere, right now, one frustrated driver decides that there is an opening and it's possible to navigate from the fast lane to the middle lane to the slow lane and back through to the fast line to get past the car that's driving too slow in the fast lane in front. A car in the middle lane doesn't realize that the frustrated first driver is going to try and cut in front of him and decides to change lanes at the same time. Now you have an accident involving the frustrated driver, the driver who just wanted to change lanes and five other vehicles who just wanted to get home before 6 p.m.

or

You're on Maryland Parkway at Eastern , it's 3 am, there are three other cars on the road that you can see. You've been sitting at the light for four minutes, you measured it through the number of songs and a commercial playing at KKLZ. There's a car in front of you. The light isn't working. You wait five more minutes ... you are now qualified for sainthood .. and decide to go around the car because the situation is now beyond ridiculous. You carefully look both ways, drive in the bike lane, go around the car and are immediately pulled over by a cop who, unnoticed by you, came up behind you. The driver you just passed smirks, driving by through the now changed light.

The rest sof the story.

You protest the ticket because the light wasn't working. You plead not guilty. The ticket is $200.00. The bail to go to court to present your side of the story is $600.00. It's nearly Christmas and you'd rather buy Christmas presents for your kids than sit on principle, waste another day in court and $600.00 that you may or may not get back. So, you go back to traffic court and change your plea and pay the fine.

Welcome to Las Vegas....

Live in Las Vegas

Yes, people live in Las Vegas.
No, they don't all live on the Strip.
Yes, people have families in Las Vegas.
No, they don't all commute from California.
Yes, people work in Las Vegas
No, they don't all work for CSI, the mob, the casinos or the streets.
Yes, Las Vegas is an exciting place
No, Las Vegas is not the only exciting place
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