If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you may remember an occasional series I used to do about…well, about what the sign to the right suggests. I stopped preparing those posts because the, let’s call them BSCDs, BSCDs kept raising the bar. Yesterday’s crazy drivers are today’s kinda-sorta normal drivers.
Case in point. One of my early BSCD posts was about drivers who aggressively navigated around intersections with stop signs. These days, at least once a week while I’m walking, I see someone drive through an intersection as if there is no stop sign (there is). I see them take a turn too fast and drive for several hundred feet on the wrong side of the road. Motor vehicle fatalities are up, year-over-year in Connecticut for three years—pedestrian deaths have also spiked.
Earlier this week, I was in the exit lane leading to the highway off-ramp near our neighborhood. This ramp is at a point where the right two lanes are Exit-Only lanes, and the third lane is also an exit lane. To the left of these three lanes are three travel lanes. As I approached my off-ramp, I saw signs for a work crew—they were mowing and clearing the hillside near the shoulder. Seeing people using machines and on foot, I slowed down and moved to the left (as required by State law). I still had my right turn signal on. A few seconds later, my blind spot warning started beeping. A car, traveling much faster than the 65 mph (105 kph) speed limit, passed between my car and the work crew on the shoulder. The driver then swerved in front of me and crossed the other two exit lanes before pulling back into traffic.
So, I have three one liners for you to choose from:
A) If you’re that type of driver— “Slow (adverbial phrase I can’t print) down you (adjective I can’t print) (noun I can’t print)!”
B) If you’re a driver sharing the road with the driver in A— “Please be careful out there.”
C) For the people on those road crews, around town or on the highway—I’m going to parrot the signs our Department of Transportation uses— “Let ’em Work – Let ’em Live”
This post is part of Linda G. Hill’s fun weekly series One-Liner Wednesday. If you have a one-liner, or if you would like to join in on the fun, you can follow this link to participate and to see the one-liners from the other participants.
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