[djmcmath]

I always used to think that it was normal to stop at a red light. In fact, in my admittedly limited experience, I've observed that red lights almost always come right after yellow ones, so it makes sense to slow down a little for a yellow, in case you need to stop on the red. So in the same way that I find it predictable that the sun rises in the East, I expect traffic to slow down and stop at red lights.

But maybe that's not true here in CT. Twice now, in less than a month, I've been rear-ended by stopping when the light went red. It shouldn't have been a surprise either time -- the light went yellow, so I slowed down, knowing I wouldn't make it through before it turned. Then the light went red, so I stopped, exactly as anticipated, and got rear-ended. The other guy both times said the same thing: "I thought you were going to go!"

Um ... go? Through a red light? No, why would I do that? Does the sun still rise in the east? Am I missing something?

In both cases, the other poor bloke took a lot more damage than I did, and it's just my beater Honda, so I couldn't possibly care, but there's a principle here somewhere. Maybe I should start running reds to keep from getting run down from behind?

(sigh) End rant. Thanks for listening.