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....