Buckeyegolfnut
Well-known member
I usually eat my lunch a little after 11. Today I brought corned beef on rye with some spicy mustard, and I was really looking forward to it. I have a meeting at 11.
Why not just eat your lunch during the meeting. If someone bitches that this is "meeting time", you can b*tch back that it is your normal "lunch time"!
Okay, so living in the country has it's pluses and minuses, one of the drawbacks being that it is a ten mile drive from my house into town on country roads. Not really that bad, most of it is on one good road, a few windy parts, a couple of moderate grades, but easy to maintain the posted speed limit or above. The first five miles is 50 mph speed limit, then 45 mph the second five.
There are a lot of really bad drivers up here though, and getting stuck behind them can really tax your patience, something I'm short on anyway. There are only three places where it is legal to pass, nice long, straight, flat sections, and all three are in that first five miles. Well that has been the case for more than the 32 years I've lived out here, until last week. I'm assuming it was some idiot at the County Dept of Transportation that decided to get rid of those passing areas, repainting the broken center line to a solid double yellow, so now we have ten miles of road with no legal places to pass, and these hills are filled with Prius and Subaru drivers that won't get anywhere near the speed limit. Add in the logging trucks, RVs, and other big slow vehicles, and it can add a bunch of time to the drive, and a conga line of cars a mile long by the time you get to town.
This reminds me of something done on a couple of two lane, one way roads in my area. These are a 2 lane, one way road eastbound, and another 2 lane, one way road westbound. They were designed to handle the traffic heading to the steel mills shortly before shift change time, when a large portion of the workers, lived in this area. This is a legacy of government working properly. It worked wonderfully!
Up near the signal lights hung small green and white signs saying to obey the speed limit, and you could "time it" so that you could sail right up the road, and never be stopped! Once all the steel mills go shut down, some idiot "safety director" decided to change everything! What we motorists eventually discovered is that if you went like a "bat out of hell" between one light and another, you might have a chance of making it!
How does that make things safer!