Thoughts, opinions, and musings from a curious "Seasoned Citizen"

Vol. !  No. 5

 This letter was originally to the Napa Register but never got published.  I suspect a little too much acid for them to handle and when the criticism is leveled at City Hall, it gets even stickier. I really do understand their reticence to ruffle the feathers of their sources. I hope they, and hopefully the Chief understand I am not alone in my disgust with local driving habits. That being said friends, read on.  :-)

 

                                                            

   This is not a rhetorical question.  Let me see a show of hands of those of you who are sick and tired of rude, inconsiderate, arrogant, sloppy, unskilled, preoccupied cell phone users, or texting imbeciles who have some how been given the privilege of trying to operate a  2000 pound pile of metal and glass on wheels around our streets?  Well, I’m happy to see it’s a majority.  Unless I missed it, I don’t recall seeing the hand of our Chief of Police waving very frantically.  But surly, I must have just missed it.  I’m sure the Chief is as fed up with these Bozo’s  who run red lights in groups of three and four because they can’t really expect  “me” to wait for another green sequence can they?  And how the smug arrogance oozes out of the windows of the nit-wit who thinks Stop signs are for losers as they coast through not slowing enough to even call it a “California Stop”?  And is anyone else as mystified as I am about all the high end luxury SUV’s and sedans which apparently don’t come equipped with turn signals anymore?

   Come on men and women in blue. We love you dearly, you do a dangerous job and the community benefits from your commitment. But  folks, we can’t all be Homicide Detectives, SWAT Team members, or undercover Narcs. Somebody has to do the “grunt” work of enforcing traffic laws.  How about it Chief?  Saturation enforcement for a week on Trancas between SR29 and Jefferson.  Any officer who can’t write his salary in traffic violations, we take away his gun and issue him a white cane and Seeing Eye dog.

 I double-dog dare ya’. 

So there you have it, at least that's the way I see it.

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