Have you ever seen the show Heroes that used to be on NBC? There were special people all over the world that had "abilities". Some of the abilities were genetic but some people had gotten their powers after a doctor had screwed around with them and mutated their DNA... blah blah. The point is that there was one kid on the show whose name was Micah. Micah had one of the coolest gifts ever: he could 'talk' to electronics. At one point in the show, a character who was a US senator hired him to go in and talk to the voting machines to fix the election so he'd be sure to win. That kind of thing.
Every time I get stuck at a red light, I wish, with all my heart, that I had that power. If I did, every time I would come to an intersection I would reach ahead and 'talk' to the lights and turn them green. I hate red lights. I hate waiting for them. I hate the people around me when I'm stuck at one, and I especially hate the opposing traffic that has the green light at the time. They are just so damn infuriating, especially if you have somewhere to be and you're running late. The worst ones are the ones that have either the super-fast or super-slow changing times that always seem to go against you.
I'm not trying to say, by any means, that I’m the only one that feels this way. I know tons of other people do, but this is my blog. If I had my way, I'd take Micah's ability. But since I know how little chance there is of that, I almost wish there were little mechanisms you could buy (and absolutely pay extra for) that were installed in your car and could turn certain lights green as you came up to them. The switch (whatever you want to call it) would not be able to work at every light you came to, so you would have to hit it only on the lights you really wanted. It would hold the light for a certain amount of time and then keep going with the normal traffic patterns. In computer boxes installed at every light would be a sensor that caught the signal from each switch and put them in order. For instance, say you're coming up to a light you really don't want to wait at. But someone in opposing traffic knows the light for him is about to change. He beats you to the punch on the switch and the computer gets his signal first. Yours will be logged in the computer and it will hurry the light up a bit, but you'd still have to wait.
Of course, for my switch, which I’d get for free, it would work on every light and it would rule out any other signal.
