So I recently figured out why our car insurance is so high in Las Vegas. I have had a hunch for awhile, but it was solidly confirmed the other day. When I first moved here, I was surprised that my car insurance was going up from what it was in California. I thought EVERYTHING was more expensive in California. My car insurance was over twice as much in Las Vegas to maintain the same level of coverage. Anyway, that isn't the point.
I was driving home the other night, and I exited 95S to Summerlin Parkway. I was driving along, just like everything was normal, when all of a sudden, I came around the curve, and there directly in front of me was a traffic barrel. I tapped the brakes, held my breath while taking a quick glance in the rearview mirror to make sure that the people behind me were making a rapid slow down too, and moved over onto the left shoulder/merge lane. Once it appeared that neither me nor those behind me would be crashing into the barrel at that exact time, I breathed a sigh of relief. I thought that maybe I had been driving without exactly paying attention to what was going on, and that maybe I had missed a sign saying that my lane was closing. It seemed odd, as there really wasn't a defined detour from the closed lane. It was like just driving to a dead end. And that is when I noticed a roughly ten year-old boy standing behind the barrel. And behind him were two cars, with a group of people changing the tire on one of them. Apparently they had just commandeered the traffic barrel to make their own tire-changing lane. I haven't figured out why the shoulder wasn't quite good enough for them. Safety first, right? And, if the traffic barrel didn't stop an oncoming car, then obviously the 10 year-old would!
From all of this, I can only deduce that paying the high car insurance rates in Las Vegas gives you the opportunity to use traffic barrels as needed for your own personal purposes.
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