Today’s driving lesson: If you have the right of way, take it. If you don’t have the right of way, yield it.

How simple it is to proceed when it is your turn and yield when it is not. Many polite but misguided drivers inadvertently cause traffic problems and accidents by trying to wave people through stop signs or yield signs when they themselves should proceed. Please, drive according to the rules of the road, save your politeness for face-to-face encounters where lives and fenders are not at risk.

Mark Chellis

Orrington