Granny Alert
So here I am this morning (Monday, June 18, 2007) motoring placidly eastbound down the infamous West Ave. hill into Canandaigua, on my way to the tiny shopping plaza I park at when at the Canandaigua YMCA.
As we enter Canandaigua, we encounter a traffic-light at Pearl St., next to Rank’s IGA supermarket — one of the few local supermarkets to survive the supermarket wars started by Weggers.
The traffic-light went red as I approached, so I stopped, pulling into the right-most lane, since the middle-lane is dedicated turn left onto Pearl St.
WARINESS ALERT! Just because that lane is heavily marked with left-turn only arrows, doesn’t mean the users will turn left.
As I waited for the light, a blue-haired Granny slowly dragging on a cigarette pulled her metallic dark-green Malibu next to me, and began looking down at her crossword-puzzle. (It was one of the later Malibus; not the earlier iteration.)
Well okay; she’s in the left-turn lane — that means she might be turning left.
The light changed, so I began pulling away.
But then suddenly as my left-rear fender pulled next to her right-front, I heard “CHIRP!”
Granny, seeing the light had changed, had put her crossword down and floored the poor Malibu, lighting up the front tires like a fuel dragster.
She went straight, of course. Pulled past me with the poor motor on the rev-limiter, cutting me off as I tried to merge left.
Then, as we continued placidly down West Ave., Granny in the lead, I noticed on her trunk: “Bush-Cheney 04.”
As we enter Canandaigua, we encounter a traffic-light at Pearl St., next to Rank’s IGA supermarket — one of the few local supermarkets to survive the supermarket wars started by Weggers.
The traffic-light went red as I approached, so I stopped, pulling into the right-most lane, since the middle-lane is dedicated turn left onto Pearl St.
WARINESS ALERT! Just because that lane is heavily marked with left-turn only arrows, doesn’t mean the users will turn left.
As I waited for the light, a blue-haired Granny slowly dragging on a cigarette pulled her metallic dark-green Malibu next to me, and began looking down at her crossword-puzzle. (It was one of the later Malibus; not the earlier iteration.)
Well okay; she’s in the left-turn lane — that means she might be turning left.
The light changed, so I began pulling away.
But then suddenly as my left-rear fender pulled next to her right-front, I heard “CHIRP!”
Granny, seeing the light had changed, had put her crossword down and floored the poor Malibu, lighting up the front tires like a fuel dragster.
She went straight, of course. Pulled past me with the poor motor on the rev-limiter, cutting me off as I tried to merge left.
Then, as we continued placidly down West Ave., Granny in the lead, I noticed on her trunk: “Bush-Cheney 04.”
posted by BobbaLew at 2:50 PM
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