"Your Federal Flood Relief Tax Dollars At Work" that is the St. Charles area where they aren't smart enough to move away from a flood plane and wonder why flood insurance has gone up in their areas. Every time it rains, the route to St. Charles to St. Louis gets blocked by water and unless you own a boat or have a "Duck" or a car that floats, you cannot get through without taking alternative routes that take longer. But also the Illinois areas near the Mississippi as well.

Anyway Missouri should have been one of the following:

"Meet our new state tree, the orange traffic construction barrel!"

"St. Louis, Kanasas City, Branson, Hanibal, that's all we got besides farmlands!"

"Home of the rolling stop and other traffic oddities."

"We never compromise!"

"Site of many civil war battles over the control of our iron, copper, and other valuables. Otherwise neither the North nor the South would have bothered."

"One giant mudball, but a fun mudball!"

"The 'Show me your *ss' state." ;)

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1. A right lane construction closure is just a game to see how many people can cut in line by passing you on the right as you sit in the left lane waiting for the same jerks to squeeze their way back in before hitting the orange construction barrels.

2. Turn signals are clues as to your next move. A real St. Louis driver never uses them.

3. Under no circumstances should you leave a safe distance between you and the car in front of you or the space will be filled in by somebody else putting you in an even more dangerous situation.

4. Crossing two or more lanes in a single lane change is considered "going with the flow."

5. The faster you drive through a red light, the smaller the chance you have of getting hit.

6. Never get in the way of a older car that needs extensive body work. Missouri is a no-fault insurance state and the other guy doesn\ufffdt have anything to lose.

7. Braking is to be done as hard and late as possible to ensure that your ABS kicks in giving a nice relaxing foot massage as the brake pedal pulsates. For those of you without ABS, it\ufffds a chance to stretch your legs.

8. Construction signs tell you about road closures immediately after you pass the last exit before the traffic begins to back up.

9. The new electronic traffic warning system signs are not there to provide useful information. They are only there to make St. Louis look high-tech and to distract you from seeing the St Louis County police car parked in the median.

10. Never pass on the left when you can pass on the right. It\ufffds a good way to scare people entering the highway.

11. Speed limits are arbitrary figures, given only as suggestions and apparently not enforceable in the metro area during rush hour.

12. Just because you\ufffdre in the left lane and have no room to speed up or move over doesn\ufffdt mean that a St Louis driver flashing his high beams behind you doesn\ufffdt think he can go faster in your spot.

13. Please remember that there is no such thing as a shortcut during rush-hour traffic in St Louis.

14. Always slow down and be a lookee-loo when you see an accident or even someone changing a tire.

15. Throwing litter on the roads adds variety to the landscape, keeps the existing litter from getting lonely and gives Adopt-a-highway crews something to clean up.

16. Everybody thinks their vehicle is better than yours, (especially pickup truck drivers with stickers of Calvin peeing on a Ford, Dodge or Chevy logo.)

17. Learn to swerve abruptly. St Louis is the home of high-speed slalom driving thanks to MoDOT (Missouri Dept. of Transportation), which puts potholes in key locations to test drivers\ufffd reflexes and keep them on their toes.

18. It is traditional in St Louis to honk your horn at cars that don\ufffdt move the instant the light changes.

19. Seeking eye contact with another driver revokes your right of way.

20. Never take a green light at face value. Always look right and left before proceeding.

21. Heavy snow, ice, fog, and rain are no reasons to change any of the previously listed rules. These weather conditions are God\ufffds way of ensuring a natural selection process for body shops, junkyards, and new vehicle sales. After all, we do have our priorities.

22. Remember that the goal of every St Louis driver is to get there first, by whatever means necessary.

23. Real St. Louis women drivers can put on pantyhose and apply eye makeup at 75 miles per hour in bumper-to-bumper traffic. Real St. Louis men drivers can remove pantyhose and a bra at 75 miles per hour in bumper-to-bumper traffic.