Article: 52 of alt.religion.roshambo
Newsgroups: alt.religion.roshambo
From: dmarshal@netcom.com (Dave Marshall)
Subject: The Tripartite Nature of Traffic
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 14:20:49 GMT

I was driving to work the other day when I suddenly became aware of its 
tripartite nature - what an epiphany!

The scene:  The intersection of Sunset Road and Las Vegas Boulevard.  
Sunset is three lanes westbound, but 90% of the traffic turns right onto 
the strip and must all merge into the right lane.

Drivers are one of three modes:

ROCK - The drivers who clump together, having gotten into the right lane 
early.  Through teamwork they can defeat the SCISSORS-mode drivers, but 
they can do nothing about the PAPER-mode drivers.

PAPER - The drivers who zoom ahead of the ROCK-mode drivers in the middle
lane and get into the right lane by taking advantage of the overly-wide
turn lane.  Their only impediment is the SCISSORS-mode drivers who are
also using the middle lane.

SCISSORS - The drivers who seek to cut into the middle of a group of 
ROCK-mode drivers.  They will proceed up to where the traffic is very 
slow and then wait to take advantage of a ROCK-mode driver's lapse and 
then cut in.  If the ROCK-mode drivers choose, they can carefully stick 
together and crush the dream of the would-be SCISSORS-mode driver.


This is how the balance is kept.


-- 
Dave Marshall
dmarshal@netcom.com