scrabbler1
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I did get thoroughly chastised by my passenger ... AKA wife ... for using the horn. What was I supposed to do, get out and politely tap on the other cars window and ask them to please pay attention and drive when the signal is green?
This reminds of the time where I had to get out of my car, walk up to the lead car at the traffic light, and tap on his window. But it wasn't because of his failure to move at a green light.
He hadn't pulled up all the way to the traffic light, pulling up instead to what appeared to be a stop line but instead it was a line of tar from some recent road repair about a car length before it. By not pulling up all the way, the sensor to activate the green arrow was not being triggered. Everyone else was getting a green light over and over at some point except for us, and after more than 5 minutes the traffic was backing up in this lane with some drivers honking to no avail.
I was a few cars back and knew what was happening, so I got out of my car and walked up this lead car. The driver rolled down the window and I explained to him (or her) that s/he had to pull up further, to the actual stop line so the sensor would be triggered. He did, and our arrow soon appeared and we made our turn.
Lightning can strike twice. A few years ago, at a different red light near the barbershop I was waiting outside of for the barber to arrive, I saw a car not pulling all the way up to a light, so he would never get his green light at a 3-way intersection. With nothing else to do, I walked over toward his car. I pointed to the pavement where the sensor was visible and told him to move up so his car would pass over it and trigger his green light, which soon arrived as he gave me a thumbs-up for my help.