Talk:No Right Turn on Red/@comment-25949140-20150303172123

This was a decent story. I smiled at the end when I read his ultimate response to the situation. Very seldom in a pasta does anyone take the more logical action. They always end up doing the bad stuff because 'they couldn't turn away' or 'felt drawn to do it' or something, while the whole time the reader is thinking "Just go the other way, dang it!" This guy went the other way.

That said, going the other way does kind of leave us on a cliffhanger. Was everything okay from that day on? Did he continue to be inexplicably drawn to the intersection, some outside force obligating him to continue experiencing the trauma of hitting a child until he lost his mind? The choice to just opt out leaves a lot of questions unanswered for the reader, even if it is the more sound choice for the protagonist to make - NOPE-ing on out of there.