Today at the YMCA

I’m done working out, and walking back to my car, which I park at a small shopping-plaza about three blocks from the Y.
I’m walking west on Park Ave., which is one-way west between the main drag through Canandaigua (State Route 332) and the twin railroad-bridges of the old Auburn.
—Park Ave. is the route usually used by Y-members, since it accesses the Y parking-lot. But ya gotta drive the kerreck direction.
Suddenly up the street, going east, which is the WRONG way, barges a tan metallic Caliber, driven by a supremely confident blondish soccer-mom.
I was sorely tempted to shout “wrong way;” I have before.
But instead of saying anything, which before sowed weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth, I decided to look for a Dubya-sticker as she passed.
Sorry guys’ no Dubya sticker. I guess the Caliber is after 2004.

The “Auburn”-Road was the first railroad across the state into Rochester. It took a rather circuitous route, and is now partly abandoned. A more direct railroad was built east from Rochester to Syracuse, so the Auburn (via Auburn) became a detour bypass. The direct route became the mainline of the New York Central Railroad, but NYC also owned the Auburn. (The direct route is now CSX.) The Auburn served many small farming communities, but became moribund. What remains is now operated by independent shortline Finger Lakes Railway, but the line into Rochester is gone.

Dodge “Caliber,” a small car styled much like a truck.

“Dubya-sticker” is a Bush-Cheney 2004 bumper-sticker. All insane traffic-moves seem to involve Bush-supporters. They seem to think they have the right.