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Blue Lights and 10 Dollar Bills

     Two unrelated but equally important things: traffic lights and ATMs. First off, a red light should become a stop sign after waiting for a certain amount of time. Let’s say there hasn’t been and will not be any oncoming traffic and I’ve just been sitting there for a whole 30 seconds, I should be able to go. Certainly it is within a persons ability to make this call. I hate when I’m driving late at night and I catch the red and there are absolutely no cars on the road but I still have to wait anyway. It’s meaningless and those lights can be unrealistically long. Sometimes I’m actually tempted to take a right on red, do a quick K turn, and then take another right and legally be on my way. That’s how impatient I can be (although the light would probably change by that point). In these situations, traffic lights no longer provide me with safety or let other vehicles pass by which is the whole and only reasons we have them. It can be really goddamn frustrating to sit there waiting for the green when you know that red light has the biggest fucking troll face on. It’s entirely possible that if this were the case some people would lie and say they waited the allotted time when in actuality they ran the red. So yes, even if there wasn’t another car in sight, maybe people wouldn’t be able to be trusted with this system. But a relatively easy solution would be to install some type of mini GPS machinery into each light that would be able to dictate for us if there are cars coming and if not, the time to wait (I’d estimate that 15 seconds would be fair). I can see it now. It’s 2 AM and there are absolutely no cars on the road except yourself. You get the red. 15 seconds pass and the red turns blue indicating that it’s now a stop sign and safe for you to go. We should make this a thing. Blue lights.

     Secondly, ATMs really need to have the option of being able to withdraw 10 dollar bills, maybe even fivers. $20 is too much for a minimum withdrawal and if I take that much out, I’m probably going to end up spending it all for the simple fact that it’s either there right in front of me or in my wallet. This might sound extremely poor but sometimes all I want to do is get something to eat and be done with it. $10 is the perfect amount for this. I know a lot if not most food joints accept debt but I like to actually see how much I spend, it’s easier to conserve that way. And it’s also much easier to spend money off of a card then to physically have to fork over the cash. Because who knows, I might not want to spend a crisp 10 dollar bill to get a number 2 at McDonald’s, I might change my mind. It’s all about the mentality of it. The other thing is, how hard can doing this be? I mean, it’s a bank for Christ’s sake. I don’t mean to complain but it’s these little everyday things that would make life that much less complicated.

Food vs. Money: The Solution

If my body didn’t require food, it’d be ridiculous how much money I’d save. A shitload. My goal is to sock away $1000 and never dip below that amount. And eventually as I keep working, this base minimum will change to $2000. Then $3000, et cetera. But having to eat costs more than it should. My stomach and my wallet keep getting into this nasty little tiffs. The government needs to create a system where they give each household in America free food. Each week they’d hand out a certain lump sum of nutritional goodies and it’d be up to you to ration it out for the entire 7 days. They’d hire workers to drive around in trucks as delivery men. And each worker would have their particular area to make deliveries to. And depending on how many family members you live with, you’d be given a percentage of food more or less. They would give you the most basic and easily mass producible foods of the 5 food groups. So a grain (probably just bread or pasta), a vegetable and a fruit (which could change each week), a meat, and a diary product like cheese or milk. They wouldn’t be handing out 5 star meals or anything extravagant. If you wanted better tasting, more expensive food the government wouldn’t help you with that. You’d have to either buy it yourself from a super market or go to a restaurant. And it’s not like they’d be dishing out an entire weeks worth of food to every single household in the US either. That would be asking way too much if it isn’t already. They’d give out enough food for a week if you eat very conservatively but you’d probably have to do some shopping on your own. I’m positive this is never going to happen since as of writing this we’re in over 15 trillion dollars worth of debt and rising (see: http://www.usdebtclock.org/). And this definitely would be an expensive project but it’s a great idea! My bank account agrees with me.

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