does this mean i'm a bad person?

[David88vert]

i was stuck at a light today for almost 20 minutes because of a funeral convoy. ....so your 75 cousins can skip through red lights...

Let's break this down a little further.

One car generally will have an average of two people - some cars will have more, and some will have only one person.

If the procession is very loose, then you would have 1 car every 3 seconds starting to enter the intersection at at time. That's 20 cars every minute entering the intersection. Again, that's if they aren't following each other closely. Generally, processions are fairly slow, and cars bunch up, but we will try to keep the number lower here.

If the police took 1 minute to initiate the block on the intersection, and to get out of the intersection (generally, it shouldn't take 15 seconds), and allowing 1 minute per side (4 sides = 4 minutes) for the intersection to clear after the procession has passed, then you have 15 minutes of procession.

15 minutes at 1 car per 3 seconds entering the intersection is 300 cars, carrying an average of 600 people. That is a really big funeral, and probably not someone who is insignificant. Do you know for certain that 600+ people would show up for your funeral?

Care to rephrase how long you were actually delayed at the light? Sounds to me like you might be embelishing the amount of time that you were really delayed.

[Sinfix_15]

Let's break this down a little further.

One car generally will have an average of two people - some cars will have more, and some will have only one person.

If the procession is very loose, then you would have 1 car every 3 seconds starting to enter the intersection at at time. That's 20 cars every minute entering the intersection. Again, that's if they aren't following each other closely. Generally, processions are fairly slow, and cars bunch up, but we will try to keep the number lower here.

If the police took 1 minute to initiate the block on the intersection, and to get out of the intersection (generally, it shouldn't take 15 seconds), and allowing 1 minute per side (4 sides = 4 minutes) for the intersection to clear after the procession has passed, then you have 15 minutes of procession.

15 minutes at 1 car per 3 seconds entering the intersection is 300 cars, carrying an average of 600 people. That is a really big funeral, and probably not someone who is insignificant. Do you know for certain that 600+ people would show up for your funeral?

Care to rephrase how long you were actually delayed at the light? Sounds to me like you might be embelishing the amount of time that you were really delayed.

Columbus is one of the main train stops in the southeast. There's a train parking lot of whatever you would call that right in the middle of columbus with trains entering and exiting from nearly every direction. This all happens right in the middle of all the most highly traveled roads in the business district. Seeing the trains coming and going changes my course on a daily basis and under the right circumstances they back up traffic rather quickly. I add 15 minutes or so to my expected travel time to account for this every single day.

In this particular instance, traffic was already bottle necked before the convoy even arrived. The police cars didnt have clear path to the intersection. I had to listen to police cars laying on their horns and sirens moving stopped traffic out of their way as i sat parked in a lane facing towards would be on coming traffic to move out of their way. After the funeral convoy passed the police hand directed the scattered traffic out of the intersection. By the time i got to move, a train was passing the road ahead of me and i had to take an alternate route around it (which im used to) but could have potentially avoided.

I had 45 minutes to get where i was going, a course that i usually allow 30 minutes to travel and on a good day can travel in 15 minutes. I had to cancel one of my stops and arrived where i needed to be with 5 minutes to spare.


and to be honest............. i'm actually sandbagging on how big of a cluster fuck this really was, because if i gave the full details of this, it would simply sound unbelievable and made up.