Red light is on....so what :)

Picture this: it’s 3 o’clock in the morning. You want to cross a road. You’re standing before the zebra. The red light is on. Hmmm well you look left, right, left again. It’s a straight road flooded with light from street lamps. You’re assessing the risk…since there are no cars whatsoever you can cross the road safely. Chances of you getting hit by a car are close to an absolute null. Frankly it’s more likely that a meteor will hit Earth than taking part in accident.

It happens that a CCTV captured your trespass. A policeman approaches you ten minutes later. He explains what kind of great danger of road catastrophe you might have caused. He fines you and tell you not to think about committing that sin again.

Compare this to that scene: a busy street, a middle of a day. You are gambling your life by crossing the road. A red light is on and you’re making runs between cars…arm in arm with a policeman who is not even bother to notice you doing that.

What’s the difference: the first scenario is very likely to take place in Polnad, the latter one is a common sight in the UK.

Why is it so that the state/society/ system in the UK believes that you have a mental capacity to choose the best moment for crossing a road? In Poland a simple machine is more trusted than a reasonable human being.

Why am I writing about it? Because I’m loving the fact in the Great Britain I’m trusted I can make my one decisions about how and when I want to cross a road. It’s not that hard, is it? For some reason I can be a master of my own fate only in the UK. In Poland I need a machine to think for me…

So ... I just envy Britons :)