Pedal-to-the-metal!
The other day (Friday, January 15, 2010) I’m calmly motoring west on County Road 30; returning from mighty Weggers and the Canandaigua YMCA.
It’s not as direct as 5&20, but avoids Bloomfield.
I’m approaching the intersection of Brace and McCann Roads, where I will turn north (right) onto Brace Road.
At County Road 30, Brace becomes McCann to the south.
I notice a small black Integra, with cardboard duct-taped over the rear-door window opening, on McCann Road approaching the intersection from the south at breakneck speed.
It looks like he’s going to run the stop-sign, so I hit the brakes.
At County Road 30, both Brace and McCann are signed as stop. County Road 30 is through, unsigned.
WOOPS! He sailed right on through. Hesitated a might, and then pedal-to-the-metal.
Recovering, I turned north on Brace.
By then, the Integra was far ahead; too far to see if it had a Bush-Cheney 2004 bumper-sticker.
Bush-Cheney stickers are becoming rare. That election was six years ago.
But I see enough of them, usually on cars driven by those who have no regard for traffic law.
• “Mighty Weggers” is Wegmans, a large supermarket-chain based in Rochester we often buy groceries at. They have a store in Canandaigua. (“Canandaigua” [“cannon-DAY-gwuh”] is a small city nearby where we live in Western NY. The city is also within a rural town called “Canandaigua.” The name is Indian, and means “Chosen Spot.” —It’s about 15 miles away.)
• I work out in the Canandaigua YMCA exercise-gym.
• “5&20” is the main east-west road (a two-lane highway) through our area; State Route 5 and U.S. Route 20, both on the same road. 5&20 is just south of where we live.
• “Bloomfield village” is the nearest village to the east, an old farm town. It’s about four miles from where we live in West Bloomfield, a small rural town in Western NY, southeast of Rochester. Bloomfield village is within the rural town of East Bloomfield. It has a speed-trap.
It’s not as direct as 5&20, but avoids Bloomfield.
I’m approaching the intersection of Brace and McCann Roads, where I will turn north (right) onto Brace Road.
At County Road 30, Brace becomes McCann to the south.
I notice a small black Integra, with cardboard duct-taped over the rear-door window opening, on McCann Road approaching the intersection from the south at breakneck speed.
It looks like he’s going to run the stop-sign, so I hit the brakes.
At County Road 30, both Brace and McCann are signed as stop. County Road 30 is through, unsigned.
WOOPS! He sailed right on through. Hesitated a might, and then pedal-to-the-metal.
Recovering, I turned north on Brace.
By then, the Integra was far ahead; too far to see if it had a Bush-Cheney 2004 bumper-sticker.
Bush-Cheney stickers are becoming rare. That election was six years ago.
But I see enough of them, usually on cars driven by those who have no regard for traffic law.
• “Mighty Weggers” is Wegmans, a large supermarket-chain based in Rochester we often buy groceries at. They have a store in Canandaigua. (“Canandaigua” [“cannon-DAY-gwuh”] is a small city nearby where we live in Western NY. The city is also within a rural town called “Canandaigua.” The name is Indian, and means “Chosen Spot.” —It’s about 15 miles away.)
• I work out in the Canandaigua YMCA exercise-gym.
• “5&20” is the main east-west road (a two-lane highway) through our area; State Route 5 and U.S. Route 20, both on the same road. 5&20 is just south of where we live.
• “Bloomfield village” is the nearest village to the east, an old farm town. It’s about four miles from where we live in West Bloomfield, a small rural town in Western NY, southeast of Rochester. Bloomfield village is within the rural town of East Bloomfield. It has a speed-trap.
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