Old people were out in full force fucking up the traffic this weekend. I saw the old guy riding his bike down i-75 with the state trooper escort. Before that an old guy on his little scooter decided to go from the side walk to the road without looking and did it right in front of me. On the way home there was an old lady that couldn't recognize she had a green light. We're still missing street lights from the hurricane a year ago. There's 2 left lanes and 2 lanes going straight, each lane normally has a light, but the left straight lane has no light. This lady sat in the left lane until the left turn lanes got their green light. By that point every light was green and she knew it was ok to go. She sat there for at least a minute before she finally started to drive and I can't believe no one honked at her. Then she also tried to take a left turn for a second. She realized her mistake and kept going straight though. That lady was so clueless she probably shouldn't be driving, especially a big suv like she had.
OOOF! Old people traffic. Yet another reason I will never move to Florida that I didn't realize yet
And it's not even season yet.
Old Austrian joke - A farmer with his horse drawn cart comes into town for the first time and sees a traffic light. It is red. He stops and says to his son "look at that, they have light here!" A minute or so later, the light turns yellow and he says "wow, the lights even change colors". A while later it turns green, then yellow and as it turns red he says " OK, we've seen this already, let's go."
Just replace farmer with "retiree in Florida" and you're there.
Of note - in Austria, the traffic lights go from red to yellow to green. then the green flashes right before it turns yellow and red. Yes, there is a yellow after the red - I guess a "get ready to go".
Also of note is that emergency vehicles have to comply with traffic signals - it is odd to see an ambulance go flying down the street with lights and sirens and come to a screeching halt at a light - even odder at night with no traffic.