Best Wait In Line If You Can’t Pay The Fine

I worked road construction as a flag man (human stop sign) for a while back in high school. As a flagger, I had no control over when I could let cars go; I simply waited for a pilot car and then flipped my sign, so any anger directed at me was misplaced.

One time, a lady got out of her car to b**** at me for being held up for a few minutes. After she got done cussing me out for a good couple of minutes, she decided that she didn’t want to wait anymore and blew past me.

About fifty yards down the road, she was forced onto the fresh tar (spraying tar on the side of her car and ruining the paint) by an oncoming gravel truck. The foreman saw this and blocked her in with her truck — they take this very seriously; people could be killed — and waited for a cop to show up, who promptly wrote her a $500 ticket. Sweet, sweet justice.