Yeah. This is how your mail magically appears in your mailbox. Driven in THIS, then walked, courtesy of The Pony's (or an equivalent's) two feet.
Monday, The Pony went in at 6:00 a.m. He was excited to get off EARLY at 5:30, after only working 11.5 hours. Oh, and the LLV (Long Life Vehicle) he was assigned did not have a blinker. Well. I guess it HAD a blinker. But it didn’t have that little lever on the column that you move to signal which way you’re turning.
“How did you SIGNAL?”
“Um. I didn’t.”
“You didn’t use hand signals?”
“No. Whatever that is. I turned on my flashers to make a turn. Until they quit working.”
“Oh my gosh! Didn’t you take the driving test? Since you drive on the right hand side, stick your arm STRAIGHT OUT the window to make a right turn, and bend it up at the elbow, fingertips pointing at the sky, to make a left turn.”
“No! Your arm goes straight out to go left, and bent to turn right!” Hick the expert, not paying attention.
“You are forgetting that Pony drives on the right-hand side of the LLV!”
“Nobody would know what that arm thing means, anyway.”
“OLD PEOPLE would know!”
“There aren’t that many old people on the road.”
Ooh! Val feels another quote coming on!
"Old People are like a box of chocolates. There's never one around when you want some."
It's true, only old people would know. Those LLV's are a disgrace. How can the justify using such decrepit machines? Peoples live could be in danger.
ReplyDeleteImagine what must be wrong with the LLVs that get backed into the parking spots to signify their undriveableness!
DeleteI once asked The Pony if they wash the LLVs every night, because they look so CLEAN sitting there on the parking lot. HE LAUGHED! Said, "It rains." As you can see by the inside, nobody is doing any cleaning!
I'm always surprised when I see a young person on a motorcycle using hand/arm signals. It's nice the learning hasn't all gone for nought.
ReplyDeleteThose signals probably mean something else to the young people, and it's just a coincidence that they turn the direction we know the signal signifies.
DeleteWhat is it about kids these days? Old people? Someone get me a switch.
ReplyDeleteSOMEONE? We all know that it's the young whippersnapper's duty to bring the old person the switch.
DeleteThere are plenty of old people around our neck of the woods. Also speeding youth who recognize one hand signal only. You take your life into your own hands when you drive nowadays.
ReplyDeleteHeh,heh! An OLD LADY gave me that hand signal years ago, when SHE cut in front of ME, making a left turn in my path when I had the right-of-way at a traffic light. The Pony still chortles over it to this day. He was a back-seat witness.
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