Migrate Please

“Migrate Please”

As the summer season has come to end this year I thought or rather hoped for the migration to a warmer climate the local animal known in these parts as the construction horse. During this spring and summer more and more signs began appearing letting us know that the Government was funding each project to put America back to work. Why do we need all the roads reconstructed at the same time? And why aren’t more Americans working. The roads all have been blocked off but no construction begins (sometimes for weeks). Just last we though I saw someone in a front loader driving it down the area under construction although he was not moving any material (just driving the vehicle around) and about a half dozen others standing around. These fellows were the ones the sign stated we needed to put back to work. Giving them the benefit of doubt, they may have already put in some strenuous time lifting their coffee cups being ever so careful not to burn themselves.

Our State Motto should read :

“Welcome to Illinois where all roads shall merge into one”

As the roads go, I would have thought that they would or should degrade at the same rate (they have about the same amount of vehicular traffic)and seeing that they weren’t all built in the same year, they would not need to be repaired in the same year either. Maybe I should use the time sitting in my car creeping along a little bit slower than a box turtle to unwind after a day of work. I would probably enjoy listening to some music on the radio watching the sun set a little more on my patio than in my car, watching the people who think that they need to get home quicker than I do. These yokels think the flashing arrow telling drivers that a lane is merging into another is an indication to see how many of them could cram their way up in front of other drivers. I would like to tip my hat to the truck drivers that use their 20 ton vehicles like linemen blocking for some running backs.

For now the days are getting shorter and the temperature lower, so it’s time for the horses to be moving to a warmer climate. Maybe then my temperature too shall recede. Can’t wait for spring……………..