I never realized until this morning, how much the game of Frogger is applied in driving, especially crossing busy roads with no traffic signals. While I typically like to take the fastest route and go with traffic patterns because it “flows” vs stop and go routes, recently I have been forced into the stop and go with construction backing up my usual route.

It is clear that not everyone played hours on end of frogger when they where younger as I did, because they have a hard time getting across busy 4 lane roads with a middle turn lane in the middle.

For example, while I could drive straight across the road and wait for traffic to clear in both directions like most people tend to do through my observations, which can take significantly longer time to cross, I will wait for a small break, enough I can accelerate and I will make a right turn and speed up and get over to the middle turn lane and stop… and wait again until I can cross the next section of road to get to the other side. I have gone is one road over and saved countless seconds of despair waiting for traffic to clear in both directions.