The red cross is mandatory.

There seems to be no rhyme nor reason for how traffic behaves.
Cars slow down and speed up in a random fashion.
The BMW driver is not happy if the Vauxhall driver overtakes.
The Mini driver expects to be the smallest but is not any longer.
The van driver thinks he rules the road.
The lorry driver knows he rules the road.
Or he thinks that he knows it.
However, in reality, the little old man, in
His thirty year old Ford, who refuses to drive
At any speed greater than 40 miles per hour
Regardless of the conditions or prevailing traffic,
And who forgets that the lever that goes up and down
Makes the little orange lights flash, in reality,
That is the man who rules the road.

© 2ndwitch, 27/10/14