Sometimes I wonder what happened to the road.
Growing up in the Northwest, we’d have some powerful “freeze-thaw” on our roads. (I mean Spokane and not Seattle, by the way. Seattle is great, but it doesn’t really freeze there like it does in Spokavegaloo.)
What this means, if you happen to be from somewhere like Phoenix where it never seems to freeze, is that the water gets into all of the street cracks and then tears the road to bits when it freezes. Sounds romantic, but it basically destroys the road each and every year with a series of epic pot holes from hell.
As each pot hole is driven through, it splashes out a little more dirt, making them deeper and deeper. It’s not unusual to have some of these pot holes a foot in depth, which happens to be the perfect size to completely ruin the axles on your car.
After a couple of months of this, the road looks more like a minefield, minus most of the bodies.
What to do about it?
- Contact the city and let them know that you’ve got bad pot holes.
- Wait for the city worker to quit laughing.
- Hang up the phone.
- Save your gum until you have a big ball, and toss it in the holes with some of that old gravy.
Does your city/town/village have pot holes of Hell?
- Daniel
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Hi Dan, I saw your billboard on the San Tan 202 near Kyrene. Just wanted to tell you.
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Driving many times between Chicago and Milwaukee, you just take your loose change and toss it into the potholes as it will do as much good as reporting them to anyone.