Wheels in Motion
Rolling Down the Road
by Rick Tornello
The Narrators voice
is heard over the background noise, cars and
trucks stop and sometimes go with diesel smoke
belching and a video screen of gridlock. Hazy
morning sun and jets approaching Dulles
International airport dumping fuel a few hundred
feet above.
“This dear
audience is for your entertainment and not so
deep consideration. Or if you choose otherwise,
that is to make yourself clinically mad, you
could simply follow the goings on 30 or so miles
east of here in our nation’s capital. But
this is much more fun.
Here we all on route 50
East, bound deep inhaling exhausted, tied in
traffic sitting, no movement yet a lifetime of 3
red lights gone by now. Only to move a vehicle
length or so, while again, repeat the same.
“Even SIMs the game,
simple as it is, which upon fact and science
framed, wouldn’t allow this to proceed.
“However, our leaders
voted for, for sooth asleep at the voting booth,
sitting, inhaling CO now in a coma induced
putrefied mind dreaming campaign dollars dollar
reaping.
“How can it be that
our sagacious advisors and planners, all those
bodies in the know, didn’t figure on the
directions to work you’d all decide go? They
said to me straight faced, I swear, I do declare:
‘Instead of taking
northbound travel for a southerly location, WE
didn’t figure you dear public would, would
on this new parkway, in this direction repair.
Confident were we, oh not for some years would we
gridlocked be.’
“No liquor plied nor
drugged, and he swore, not a lie. That’s
exactly over lunch what was stated to me.
I checked just in case
if this was April the first and some joke in bad
taste placed. But no and in an outburst asked,
“Why on Earth would I go north and then
south and stuck again, when a right hand turn
takes me short to work? You’re pulling my
leg? What are you smoking and not sharing? Do you
think I’m a jerk?”
“We just didn’t
plan for it,” came back the reply.
This dear audience is just
the tip of working and commuting here in this
current technical brain central hub. The traffic’s
not moving, so what do you care? Your car has
radar control, no concentration to be faked. No
need to look up and no bumper you’ll brake.
Just download and listen. You might laugh, you
might cry, especially as the guy in a suit, on
that bicycle face-masked but still gassed, passes
you by.
Insult to injury? Just
think Amazon’s amazing 25000 more abounding
East in the morning, some coffee to drink and a
catheter wound. Catheters, a low-tech option for
urban vehicle travel-bound found especially in
this county rich in wealth but parsimonious in
planning and simple civil urban engineering
health
So now as you sit and stew
in your Tesla-Ford-BMW front window view, your
hours in traffic and quality of life dictated by
the vehicle time confined, and mad.Welcome to
Loudoun and Fairfax Counties VA, some of if not
the richest counties in the USA.
Beep beep,
toot toot.
by
RdotTornello © 2018 & the Village idiot
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