> > > > remember that we are all lucky to be here and to remember that death may only be a step a way.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I drive through four (yes, four) rotaries every day on my way to and from work. This daily adventure has made me very aware of my mortality. *shudder*
> >
> > Urg. Over in the city where I live, we have a traffic circle. It was so bad, I usually take other streets just to avoid the thing.
> >
> > Odd fact: While New Jersey is phasing out traffic circles, suburbs of Seattle are competing to get circles installed.
> >
> > Other odd fact: In New Jersey, there is no law about who has right-of-way in a circle aside from the "main flow of traffic".
> >
> > -Faux "Our circle is scheduled for removal in 2003, I can't wait." Pas
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> hahaha, be glad you don't live in DC. we have a billion of those things, i drive through them all the time. and they're HUGE, too, like 5 or 6 MAIN streets... when i go out into Maryland, i see the little ones that are two streets, and i am forced to laugh. yes, i am glad to be alive every time i get out of one of those things... and i don't even drive yet!!!!!
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> uni"can't wait to be 16"peg

Rotaries, traffic circles, meat grinders, prayer circles, cyclones. I'm sure there must be other names for them, even some that can be printed here.
Howard