traffic

six days on the road...

have you ever seen an avocado truck with a flat tire..well, now you have! This a one was limping along on Via Real ker plunk ker plunk in Carp and finally came to a rest..I looked out the window and there it was..so I lept into action.. I called Sky King on my Ham radio who just kept going around in circles..circling..all the while the avocado truck, (Carps got some great avocados by the way..when I go walking or biking in the foothills, I just grab the ones that have fallen off the trees and I'm never out of avocados... I get 'em free!) Anyway, the truck is still standing there..so i go out and ask the driver wut up Mexican..he says he was delivering avos in Santa Barbara and ran over a bulb out then around Santa Claus Lane after running a Stop Sign, he noticed the truck swaying and finally pulled over to the side of the road..he starting screaming at me "you Americans want to stop all traffic but I gotta get to dees places...I no likey doze bulbouts and Stop Signs..I gonna sue da city...I told him hey amigo, you're not alone..you got some friends on the SB City Council..Dale Mike and Frank..your Three Amigos...they hate bulbouts!! and any traffic control anywhere...just get in your car and drive without any impediments at all..kinda takes the accountablilty and responsibility away from the driver so if you run over a roundabout or bulbout or a kid, just blame the city!! The council was hearing an appeal Tuesday of a bulbout on Milpas/De La Guerra and the sparks were flying..yippee..Mayor Helene was cool as usual and seemed to enjoy the fracas...
and then Frank Hotchkiss started screaming at city traffic dude David Pritchard to "stop all this socialist engineering and get it right!!" ..I thought Frank was gonna jump over the dias and beat him up!! Then Dave ran crying from the room, but not before getting a few donuts on the way out..then Dale starts lecturing the city staff on manners when they called th EYEGLASS FACTORY guy's appeal "frivolous"...Dale says as public servants they must treat all citizens with respect except when Dale was running unsuccessfully for mayor, he shouted and pointed his finger at a public speaker, Bob Hanson, in a bid to shut him up....the city staff were rolling their eyes as if to say "ok Dale.. whatever"....
so the appeal failed and Das says drunk drivers should not view bulbouts as pink elephants and run over them...so it was all very entertaining and I think Mike Self is insane and fun to watch!!