Let's explain that funny looking word they have on triangular road signs.

The Word is Yield, and if you look at it long enough it doesn't even look like a real word, well, it is.

Let's show you the signs I am talking about...

So many drivers in this State seem to have no clue whatsoever of it's meaning or why the word is used on traffic signs.

Let's start with the word itself and it's definition:

yield
      It is a verb, that means it's an "Action" word, a verb is a word that requires action, it means you have to do something.

Let's look further and see it in a sentence,

"The knight was forced to yield his sword and shield"

It means to give up, surrender, capitulate, submit, relent, admit defeat, back down, give in.

You see, it' is telling you that the other vehicles you are about to meet have "the right of way", you are to surrender the road to them.

Why do the highway departments use such a strange word? It is simple, can you imagine what the size of the sign would be and how long it would take for you to read, "HEY ASSHOLE, THAT CAR COMING OFF THE HIGHWAY ONTO THE EXIT HAS THE RIGHT OF WAY, YOU CANNOT AND SHOULD NOT FLY OUT INTO TRAFFIC LIKE SOME FAT ASS BEHEMOTH WITH DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR" 

Isn't yield much easier.

And when the sign says "Right of Way" beneath the yield word, it's telling you, you are giving it up, that the right of way is not yours, you twit.

I write this in hopes that there is an off chance that the lovely considerate  woman who dumped off Briggs Street onto Frontage road may read this. You know the Lady who caused the cars trying to exit to lock brakes and evade her, while she blew her horn at them as if she wasn't a Fucking Twat, and she sped off up Frontage road.

Just in case she may see it.