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There’s this one little section of road that I pass through every day on my way to and from work. It’s so sharply curved you can’t even call it an S. It’s literally two 90-degree bends, one right after the other. If you’re heading north on the road, this is the left turn you have to take. Note that the view is somewhat obstructed here by a Honda. Not that said Honda is not on the road. While I do understand the allure of off-roading, I’m thinking that a Honda passenger car was probably not the best choice for this endeavor.
Honestly, folks, this intersection breeds more accidents – see the arrow signs? See the shiny guardrail? You know WHY that guardrail is shiny? Wait – you know why PART of that guardrail is shiny? It’s because only a few weeks ago someone else decided that simply hitting the ditch was not good enough, and they went through it and took part of the guardrail with them.
This happens far more often than I can count. I’ve been making this drive for over a year now, and just about every other time it rains or snows or freezes or it’s perfectly sunny even someone decides to use this section of road as a National Highway Safety bumper testing zone. Let’s also not forget the one day when some semi driver thought he had come up with some sweet back route, drove down this way, got here, and went, “Oh…I can’t make this turn…and I can’t back up…and now there’s a school bus behind me…and…oh…damn.”
Aside from any sort of finger pointing or whatever, I really just think it’s kind of funny that people repeatedly fail to slow down enough to make this curve. Doesn’t even look like this guy even tried to get it turned left, just like he went, “Well, goin’ over. Guess I’ll just meet it head-on!”
I clicked on this picture to get a better look at the guard rail, and for some reason me eyes were drawn to the church sign in the background, which says this, “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.” Church signs are always so intense in one way or another.
I don’t understand why they make roads like that. When they designed it, didn’t someone stand back and go, “Maybe this isn’t a good idea?”
A friend of mine has started taking pictures of those stick-up-letter signs that churches post outside, you know the ones that say stuff like, “Jesus died for My Space in heaven,” or whatever. I think they have profession inspiration signpersons working 24 hours a day to come up with all that stuff.
And along the lines of what that one above says, the word “Yahweh” means “breath” in one interpretation, so breathing is, in a sense, praying or saying the name. Interesting thought.
This road had to have been nothing but a cow path or a dirt road for years. It cuts around some real estate and across a little creek. I think the creek and some surrounding hills/dips are what made the road take the course it did. Well, that, and someone put that church in the way so it couldn’t keep going straight north. Those real estate people – no respect for straight roads, I tell ya!