Frazz by Jef Mallett for December 02, 2018

That’s right Frazz. Green means go. Red means stop. Yellow means go like heck to beat the red.

Okay, everybody—what is life’s yellow light? To me, it’s that little thought that says “If I stop what I’m doing now, I won’t have to grow my skin back.”

Your ideas?

The yellow light is just a scaredy cat

It’s the cyclist speaking. There’s no gas to speak of, cyclists are always already at their limits on the streets.

What he means by “some people” is the person directly in front of you who stomps on the brakes as soon as the light turns yellow, and then once the light turns green again, stays behind the line until opposing traffic clears.

Trust Caulfield, the philosopher.

That yellow light is called a conscience. It signals the need for the application of ethics, morality, and common sense.

Seems each is rarer these days, but nothing unusual there, as those in public prominence, who should embody those qualities, appear to see them as words for occasions but nothing to take seriously.

Starman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX9ijD-0Rw4

Except for my wife who slows down for every light because it may turn yellow before she gets there, thus ensuring that it will turn yellow. People following her are very impressed by her caution.

I don’t.

Stan Pines: And the yellow light means speed up.

Monty Python: “I like traffic lights, but only when they’re green.”

In Germany not only does the yellow light come on just before the red, but also just before the red turns to green, to let you get ready to go.

when I see a yellow light just pay more attention to thesituation and then decide

In the 1930s, there was an attempt to change red to orange and green to blue, for the most common form of color blindness. While some municipalities adopted this, most standardized red on top or toward the center of the street.

Decades ago I advanced the idea that vehicle taillights should be color-coded this way as well. When your foot is on the accelerator, you’d get a green taillight. As soon as you took it off, the light would turn yellow. Then, as usual, as soon as you stepped on the brake it would turn red. I figured this would give following drivers just a little more warning of what they were getting set to drive into. Idea never went anywhere, tho.

Nothing arbitrary about traffic lights.

Frazz13 hrs ·

It would have been a question for Plato, if he’d had the computer technology: What if life had an “undo” key? Would being able to erase mistakes too quickly to learn from them be worth it? Just as good, but somehow not thought of so much even now, is the question of what if life had a yellow light. Would we slow down for trouble, or try to accelerate through it? But there’s one technology-dependent question even Plato would have known instinctively: Nothing good could ever come it if life had an auto-correct function.

I think that I was behind her yesterday. White car?

Today, a red light means “5 more cars may go.” Yellow means “hurry up and go!” And green means “stop and wait for the 5 cars.”