A Lesson in Safety
At a traffic accident once I was directing traffic, waving the on round the roundabout because they couldn’t go straight on as the accident was completely blocking that road up ahead.
One car pulls up to a stop directly in front of me, and the driver opens his window to ask something. He’s completely blocked me now from the view of the traffic, so I move to the side and just shout “I’m sorry, I can’t stop to discuss anything, the roads closed, move off the roundabout”.
He drives a few metres forward blocking me again, shouting through his window. I don’t catch everything he says, but it includes at the end something like an angry “why can’t you just stop to speak to the people you are meant to be serving”.
A car then promptly rear ends him, as he was blocking them from seeing me, and they didn’t expect him to stop dead on an otherwise clear roundabout.
“That’s why”. I made sure when I wrote it up the insurance companies would know who to blame. Story credit: Reddit / StopFightingTheDog