It's all kinda one big, sucking, vortex of blurry blah right now. My life, that is.
We still don't have a replacement for our last work casualty, the builder is still running that freaking promotion that's upped our workload to the breaking point. (And spring's the busiest time of year anyway...) My boss threatened to write her own letter of resignation, and I just want to crawl under my desk and hide. Hide A Lot!
Friday, March 24, 2006
Monday, March 06, 2006
Friday, March 03, 2006
It's a sign!!!
I don't get it.
So every morning I drive to work and on my way there's a sign. No, not a sign from God- a road sign.
"Guardrail Damage Ahead"
First time I thought, wow, someone must've really nailed one and maybe pushed it into the road. But I get to the guardrail in question, and it's only dented. It's barely bent enough to make room for the little orange cone in front of the bend.
So I drive on thinking, maybe the sign is a warning 'cause they're going to have workers out later today fixing it.
Weeks pass. I mean weeks. And there's still this huge sign with an itty-bitty dent. No change whatsoever. (Well at some point, the old cone was stolen/removed and they put out a shiny new one, but you get my point.)
And you know how once you notice something, you see it everywhere? Yeah, same here. All these big signs warning of damage of varying kinds. Having half of the entire rail ripped from the ground merits the same signage as the itty-bitty ding.
Some rails get repaired, some are still damaged, but there are always signs. "Signs, signs, everywhere the signs, blocking up the city and-" um, where was I?
Ah- yes! And I'm wondering- why?
Do they think we're going to drive safer if we know the guardrail's damaged? If that's the case, than all these signs I see are crying wolf. For every serious damage zone I see, there are easily a dozen dingy little dings. And if those dings are enough the damage the structural integrity of the guardrails, then we have more problems than we thought we did.
And it the city's soooo concerned with guardrail damage, why don't they fix them faster? Or do they just fix them when they go to put out another sign and realize they've run out?
It's not a hole in the ground, or a bump in the road that I'm gonna hit every time I go by. (Or at least one would hope I don't hit them everyday, right?) It's just a ding, a dent, I see worse damage from hailstorms.
(sigh) I just don't get it.
So every morning I drive to work and on my way there's a sign. No, not a sign from God- a road sign.
"Guardrail Damage Ahead"
First time I thought, wow, someone must've really nailed one and maybe pushed it into the road. But I get to the guardrail in question, and it's only dented. It's barely bent enough to make room for the little orange cone in front of the bend.
So I drive on thinking, maybe the sign is a warning 'cause they're going to have workers out later today fixing it.
Weeks pass. I mean weeks. And there's still this huge sign with an itty-bitty dent. No change whatsoever. (Well at some point, the old cone was stolen/removed and they put out a shiny new one, but you get my point.)
And you know how once you notice something, you see it everywhere? Yeah, same here. All these big signs warning of damage of varying kinds. Having half of the entire rail ripped from the ground merits the same signage as the itty-bitty ding.
Some rails get repaired, some are still damaged, but there are always signs. "Signs, signs, everywhere the signs, blocking up the city and-" um, where was I?
Ah- yes! And I'm wondering- why?
Do they think we're going to drive safer if we know the guardrail's damaged? If that's the case, than all these signs I see are crying wolf. For every serious damage zone I see, there are easily a dozen dingy little dings. And if those dings are enough the damage the structural integrity of the guardrails, then we have more problems than we thought we did.
And it the city's soooo concerned with guardrail damage, why don't they fix them faster? Or do they just fix them when they go to put out another sign and realize they've run out?
It's not a hole in the ground, or a bump in the road that I'm gonna hit every time I go by. (Or at least one would hope I don't hit them everyday, right?) It's just a ding, a dent, I see worse damage from hailstorms.
(sigh) I just don't get it.
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