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Found myself driving towards an intersection today and noticed the crossing signal with the timer on it..you know that count down until the light turns red.
Cleared one today with a yellow light with 2 seconds left and inadvertently said out loud "Checkpoint!" and giggled.
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Re: Outrun how you've changed my life
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#241580 - 12/19/10 07:59 AM
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> Found myself driving towards an intersection today and noticed the crossing signal
> with the timer on it..you know that count down until the light turns red.
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> Cleared one today with a yellow light with 2 seconds left and inadvertently said out
> loud "Checkpoint!" and giggled.
Lol... Do those damned things still beep for the blind out there? Colorado Blvd has some of the most jazzy crossing signals I think I've ever seen.
I was always in awe coming from places like upper Wacker in Chi-town. You have exactly 4.8 seconds to get across 4 lanes, a barely visible signal, and cabbies doing U-turns to dodge.
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Re: Outrun how you've changed my life
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#241589 - 12/19/10 10:54 AM
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> Found myself driving towards an intersection today and noticed the crossing signal
> with the timer on it..you know that count down until the light turns red.
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> Cleared one today with a yellow light with 2 seconds left and inadvertently said out
> loud "Checkpoint!" and giggled.
Is your car red? Was there a blonde woman sitting next to you?
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Re: Outrun how you've changed my life
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#241594 - 12/19/10 04:21 PM
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> > Found myself driving towards an intersection today and noticed the crossing signal
> > with the timer on it..you know that count down until the light turns red.
> >
> > Cleared one today with a yellow light with 2 seconds left and inadvertently said
> out
> > loud "Checkpoint!" and giggled.
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> Is your car red? Was there a blonde woman sitting next to you?
...and did you have some (either) awesome (or cheesy) tunes blaring out from the radio? 
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Re: Outrun how you've changed my life
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#241596 - 12/19/10 04:41 PM
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> > > Found myself driving towards an intersection today and noticed the crossing
> signal
> > > with the timer on it..you know that count down until the light turns red.
> > >
> > > Cleared one today with a yellow light with 2 seconds left and inadvertently said
> > out
> > > loud "Checkpoint!" and giggled.
> >
> > Is your car red? Was there a blonde woman sitting next to you?
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> ...and did you have some (either) awesome (or cheesy) tunes blaring out from the
> radio?
Soundsplash baby.
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Re: Outrun how you've changed my life
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#241601 - 12/19/10 08:56 PM
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When our city re-did streets & stuff we got the nice LED signals(that don't melt snow & ice off the lenses), cameras(so you can still sit and wait 10 minutes for the light to change) & crosswalk signals that not only beep but talk... What a waste of my tax dollars for a small town...that thinks it's bigger than it really is.
Now if only the traffic signals would play the countdown from Pole Position before it turns green...
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Re: Outrun how you've changed my life
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#241624 - 12/20/10 06:03 AM
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They do still have those. Before we were married my wife lived in some apartments on Colorado Blvd. & Colfax...not the best part o town. Anyway her building had a lot of blind people living there so I'm sure the beeping lights were handy.
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Re: Outrun how you've changed my life
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#241644 - 12/20/10 02:17 PM
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> They do still have those. Before we were married my wife lived in some apartments on
> Colorado Blvd. & Colfax...not the best part o town. Anyway her building had a lot of
> blind people living there so I'm sure the beeping lights were handy.
I always chuckle when I hear about Colfax being the bad part of town. Sure you can get a hooker and some meth in the Subway parking lot, but it's relatively tame compared to other places I've seen. I always have to lead in to a story about an evening near 26th and California:
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It was pretty late, and I was just getting back from attempting to bail a friend out of jail (interesting experience...). I was out of gas, and stopped at a corner Amamco. So we have a 19 year old white boy, in a classic hotrod ('67 mustang), pumping gas at 3AM in the heart of a pretty bad neighborhood.
Cops pull up behind me, turn on their lights as I'm pumping gas. They instruct me over the loudspeaker to come over to their vehicle. I wave them over as I had to keep holding on to the gas nozzle in that old car due to the rear fill pipe. They continue to wave me over to them. I finally head over and ask "What the hell did I do?" They respond with another question...."Do you know what they do to white boys around hear at this time of night?" Long story short, After an unsettling chat I let the officers know that I can handle myself (isn't teenage invincibility great?). They pull away laughing.
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I've been in some pretty bad spots, but I always consider that one to be one of the worst even though nothing happened. You have to take notice when the cops won't even get out of their cars. 
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Re: Outrun how you've changed my life
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#241648 - 12/20/10 04:35 PM
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Yeah once you get over into the 20th and above streets you're entering 5-Points, which is I guess what you can consider the ghettos of Denver. It's not Detroit by any means, but it is sketchy at best in the daytime, and worse at night.
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[Re: italie]
#241660 - 12/20/10 08:04 PM
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> > They do still have those. Before we were married my wife lived in some apartments
> on
> > Colorado Blvd. & Colfax...not the best part o town. Anyway her building had a lot
> of
> > blind people living there so I'm sure the beeping lights were handy.
>
> I always chuckle when I hear about Colfax being the bad part of town. Sure you can
> get a hooker and some meth in the Subway parking lot, but it's relatively tame
> compared to other places I've seen. I always have to lead in to a story about an
> evening near 26th and California:
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> .....
>
> It was pretty late, and I was just getting back from attempting to bail a friend out
> of jail (interesting experience...). I was out of gas, and stopped at a corner
> Amamco. So we have a 19 year old white boy, in a classic hotrod ('67 mustang),
> pumping gas at 3AM in the heart of a pretty bad neighborhood.
>
> Cops pull up behind me, turn on their lights as I'm pumping gas. They instruct me
> over the loudspeaker to come over to their vehicle. I wave them over as I had to keep
> holding on to the gas nozzle in that old car due to the rear fill pipe. They continue
> to wave me over to them. I finally head over and ask "What the hell did I do?" They
> respond with another question...."Do you know what they do to white boys around hear
> at this time of night?" Long story short, After an unsettling chat I let the officers
> know that I can handle myself (isn't teenage invincibility great?). They pull away
> laughing.
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> .......
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> I've been in some pretty bad spots, but I always consider that one to be one of the
> worst even though nothing happened. You have to take notice when the cops won't even
> get out of their cars.
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