Maybe today will be the day. The afternoon that last week’s snow will finally melt from the top of the car.
I’ve been driving the Sherman-Tank van since turning an icy 180 in the Firebird – despite my cautious approach. The van just doesn’t do things like that. And with all the dire weather warnings, I’ve just been playing it safe.
Consequently, the car – parked in a spot that is always hidden from the sun – still has a good layer of snow.
They’re saying maybe mid-forties this afternoon, which might melt it. I can’t recall snow staying on the ground for this length of time in Oklahoma. Maybe that’s what caused some folks to forget how to drive.
This morning’s award goes to the fellow who pulled onto Elm in front of the oncoming traffic despite the rapid approach of the cars. (I was in the right-hand lane doing 45 – the posted limit. The cars in the left lane were passing me rapidly but had to hit the brakes.) He drove 35 or 40 mph for about a mile and then he suddenly sped up, whizzed past on the left, and then changed lanes in front of me.
Then slowed down to 35 or 40 again.
I hit the brakes.
He turned right on 91st without a turn signal, and then sped ahead in the right hand lane. I turned behind him and watched him speed away ahead of me while I stayed within the posted 40 mph limit. At Main Street, he suddenly swerved across my path and made a left-hand turn from the right-hand lane.
About thirty yards north of the intersection, he abruptly made a complete U-turn in the center of Main. I was turning as he rolled through a red light and turned right, back onto 91st.
I wanted to count up the number of traffic violations he’d managed in the course of a mile or so, but it was way too early, too cold, and too common in Broken Arrow to make note of.
Except I just did, I guess.
Oops.
Be careful out there, and take advantage of the forty-degree heat wave. Come visit!
McHuston
Booksellers & Irish Bistro
Rose District
122 South Main St. Broken Arrow OK!