I started taking a whistle in the car for stop lights and trains, and lo and behold, I can’t seem to get a red light any more. Sometimes I’ll get there during a red and I’ll get in maybe three measures of Donnybrook Fair, then it goes to green.
As a test, I left the whistle at home and caught my former regular number of long red lights.
Until my luck changes, I’ll just get really, really good at the first three measures of Donnybrook Fair.
wouldn’t you know. That’s always how it is, isn’t it? The moment you decide you aren’t going to do something because it wouldn’t work, you find out that it would’ve worked, but as long as you’re going to go through with it, it won’t work.
Isn’t that strange. I’ve had the same experience. With a whistle at hand, I never hit a red light for more than 5 seconds. Perhaps if all Americans carried whistles in their cars, it would cut the commute time! 
Gary
It’s gotten to the point that I carry a whistle in my hand as I drive if I’m in a hurry to get somewhere…I know I won’t hit a red light as long as I hold the whistle.
Same experience for me…find myself cursing green lights for a change.
Strange, when I first glanced at the title of this post I saw “Stop Light Bulbs”
Ah, so now you’ve learned for yourselves the First Law of Stoplight Physics, Whistle Variation. Time is relative. It flows very slowly when you’ve nothing to do but stare at the back of the head of the driver in the car in front, but extremely fast when you’re trying to work through a single verse of the tune you’re trying to learn.
What this tells us is that we can conquer space travel if we only accept whistle players for the manned spaceflight program.
On 2002-07-01 12:51, Chuck_Clark wrote:
Ah, so now you’ve learned for yourselves the First Law of Stoplight Physics, Whistle Variation. Time is relative…What this tells us is that we can conquer space travel if we only accept whistle players for the manned spaceflight program.
LOL! Good one, Chuck! I think you’ve solved Einstein’s problem with the space/time Continuum.
Now the question is; Does anyone make a flux capacitor for a soprano D?
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Gary
I’m working on it.
It’s nice that you guys have discovered another benefit of whistling–turning previously negative moments (fuming at long red lights) into positive ones!! OR vice versa–fuming now at green lights because it interrupts your whistling!
I myself have been in the same boat, so I can say sincerely “I feel your pain.”
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[ This Message was edited by: Cees on 2002-07-02 12:41 ]
Hey you Guys, I feel a bit left out as I ride a motor Bike,
Do you think I should get an open faced Helmet.
D Squeaker
Hey you Guys, I feel a bit left out as I ride a motor Bike,
Do you think I should get an open faced Helmet. <<
That, or a Melody Flute…
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Nothing salves a weary soul like a cheap whistle.
[ This Message was edited by: Chuck_Clark on 2002-07-02 20:20 ]