I almost got in a car accident today, but luckily I was paying attention. I’m noticing that people in Oxford don’t understand the concept of stopping. For example, at a four-way stop, when cars are traveling north and south, they should go at the same time, then the people going east and west can go at the same time, then north and south again and so on and so forth. Here in Oxford, that’s not what people do. Here, they all go one at a time. I was traveling north. The car to my left was going east, and they went. The car traveling west (the car on my left) did not go. There was no car in front of me (traveling south), so I decided that if the west-bound car wasn’t going to go, I would. When I was almost halfway through the intersection, the other car decided she should finally go. She proceeded to beep their horn at me and wave their hands like I did something wrong. I’m sorry, but if you’re not going to go when it’s your turn, you lose your turn.

Also, when you’re turning left at a light and there’s no turn arrow, you are supposed to go out a bit into the intersection so that you are past the point of no return so that you can legally turn once the light begins to change. I was behind a girl today that sat through two green lights before she finally turned because she didn’t have a chance to turn while the light was green during the first two lights. What a waste of my time!