How's the Rear Axle?

[wagegoth]

<bg>One of the main streets by my office has a kind of freeway style onramp onto the major expressway. The ramp comes down, but continues separated by an island and has a separate light to enter the main roadway.</bg>

The minivan in front of me decides to play Hummer and drives over the island to get to the expressway, and I know I saw part of the suspension connect with the island, at which point they just miss that light and have to wait for us to go by.

Still not as bad as many I've seen, but the blithering idiocy just gets to me some days.

[protege]

I've seen a few people do that here. There's a large mall not far from me. Famous enough, that a local Chevy dealer (with the same name) brags about how they're "minutes from" the mall. Anyway, nearly every entrance and exit of that place, has small islands. Nothing too serious, just to keep the lanes of traffic apart, and to pretty up the place. Nearly all of them has had some idiot attempt to drive onto/over them head on. Never mind...that the damn things have light poles on them!

But, the island up on the hill (behind the mall) has to take the cake. That thing is about 4 feet wide, 8 feet long, and 3 feet high. It's basically an elevated garden, complete with a concrete 'bumper' of sorts at the very end. A bumper, with a "keep right" arrow sign on it. Has that stopped idiots from attempting to drive over it? Fuck no. That thing has been hit enough times, that the black/yellow saftey chevrons are scratched to hell. At least once a month, someone (probably one of the mall workers) is out there with a pickup and broom...removing broken bits of bumpers, and sweeping up glass.

[blas]

There's a lot of those "islands" around here by the mall, and nearly every mini-mall or complexes with several businesses in one lot. I think they are mostly for looks, but they do well with catching idiots being careless.

One such place, across from where Kohls and Walmart are (this is in my city, not the Walmart I usually go to) is a Chinese buffet (best in town) and down the road, a Goodwill, Aldis, Target, and Menards.

This is where my ex boyfriend, who was more focused on answering his phone while driving than paying attention, promptly went up and over one of those islands when turning into the buffet one evening. And then proceeded to scream in his own defense that those things just shouldn't be there.

[Shalom]

This is where my ex boyfriend, who was more focused on answering his phone while driving than paying attention, promptly went up and over one of those islands when turning into the buffet one evening. And then proceeded to scream in his own defense that those things just shouldn't be there.

Reminds me of a story my dad told me, which I've posted here before.