Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Theme Thursday - TRAFFIC

Because of my home-based piano studio, and my Wednesday evening musician rehearsals, the traffic I generate on my cul-de-sac would be considered significant to some. I have asked my neighbors to please let me know if anything ever bothers them, and to date only one "incident" has occurred.

I teach many young drivers piano. One slippery winter day, a two-week novice behind the wheel put her vehicle into reverse and slid down my driveway, BUH-BANG! into my neighbors' double mailboxes. The posts broke off right at the frozen ground level. The student was mortified! Her car was smashed and she was so embarrassed.

The mailboxes had been centrally located between the two houses, directly at the bottom of my driveway. But because the posts were now mobile, my neighbors could put them anywhere. This generous, friendly, understanding neighbor got out two five-gallon pails, filled them with sand, (which Minnesotans happen to have on hand in the winter), and put one long pole and box near each driveway. The postman never said anything and continued to deliver the mail. That spring, each neighbor dug his own post hole, and TA-DAH, their boxes have been moved permanently.

Some residential areas have now made covenants against businesses like mine to curtail traffic down their streets. I've been "grandfathered" in, I guess.

Here's an '80's song called "Drive", by, you guessed it - The Cars.

10 comments:

  1. nice vid. i took out a mailbox once backing out of the drive...

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  2. those mailboxes are always jumping in front (or in back) of cars, same thing happened when I was 16 to me, I swear they have a death wish.

    happy theme thursday!

    excellent musical selection!!

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  3. One 'incident' is a pretty good track record! :)

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  4. Ah, you went with a video I haven't seen on any of the other traffic posts. Good one...

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  5. Aren't you glad you have nice neighbors! I love the take for this Theme Thursday!

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  6. I once creamed a mailbox during a blow out---very scary! I hope your student was okay. Nice vid of The Cars.

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  7. Good catch on the video! I totally forgot about The Cars, and they're local (sorta; they came out of Boston, which is only an hour and a half drive from here). And yours reminded me of another video I could have posted today - Gary Numan's "Cars".

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  8. Yay, The Cars! Excellent choice.

    Your neighbors sound pretty cool.

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  9. I live on quite a long street and it's not unusual for 'kids' to come along and run over all the mailboxes. I put a star dropper behind my very inexpensive metal one . . they haven't attempted it since . . muwahahahahaha!

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  10. Love the song. glad your business is still going strong.

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