i've stopped traffic before too, ha ha.. my favorite story is in grand teton national park.. i'm stopped on a bridge taking a picture cause it's freezing out and windy and there is no way i want to walk out from the end of the bridge to the middle.. so i stop in the middle and park in the lane. No problem, cars simply go around, i was only there about 1 min and it was about 5am, so only a couple cars anyhow. as luck would have it some sort of ranger or something (not sure who he was) parks across from me in the other lane and creates a traffic jam.
"move along, don't park on the bridge" he says.. so i did the smile and say sorry thing but he starts to get bitchy so i figure why not..."ya know, if you didn't park there everyone was already going around with no problem! You are the one that created the traffic problem!" i say. so i pack up and drive away as he is bitching, but some people are so stupid.. no traffic problems but he has to park and block the whole road.. can't our taxes pay for smarter people????? ha ha
just venting and sharing government worker logic ha ha