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16.3.05

the concrete lack of jungle.

there's this one little stretch of road nearby here that is, well, utterly pointless. it's between the mall and the sears return-outlet-busted-lawnmowers shop. it's one of those three-lane roads where the lane in the center is for turning left. so far so good. but. the westbound lane - that really only needs to be one lane - this is not a busy road; at either end of this little road, it is only three lanes wide; it is not the main entrance to anything people visit on any sort of regular basis; there is never a need to pass anyone on this road as it's not long enough to get frustrated with them on; there are wide shoulders on either side (as in, wide enough to park a car in should one break down); it's not an important road by any means. but for one little stretch of it - maybe a hundred, two hundred feet - the westbound lane is two lanes wide. It's not marked; there's no white dotted line in the middle; it's just two lanes wide. Like the guy who built the road had extra concrete left over and decided, randomly, to make an extra, non-turning, non-break-down, weird, useless, extra-wide part in the road. Since nobody uses it as two lanes, either; everyone just sort of slows down a little - because they're confused - and drives down the center. There's no rationale. It could have been extra mall parking. It could have been a bus stop. It could have been a little park bench. It could have been grass and trees and chipmunks. But no.

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scrawled @ 17:06