Six thoughts |
| Published: October 11, 2007, 4:03 am |
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On the Road AgainThe latest trend in highway fatalities is to memorialize victims with makeshift grave sites near where they shoveled the corpse off the road. I hope I'm not being insensitive when I highlight how unfair this is to me. I'll grant you I'm lucky enough to still be alive. Good point. But if I toss so much as a Big Mac wrapper out my car window, I'm shelling out 500 bucks for littering. Yet Dona Maria Louisa Concholla del Pedro can stack 17 Jesus candles, a chimenea and a freakin' pinata on the I-8 shoulder with impunity. No fair.Furthermore, those funeral sites unnerve me. They're spooky. Sometimes, after I've had a few and I'm flying past them at 85 mph, I mistake them for an Indian grave site or a small taco stand. I drive up and order a carne asada plate. Next think I know, I'm staring at a picture of St. Peter in the flickering candlelight. Aye! Mi culpa. Dorma en paz, Carlito.It doesn't seem fair to me that people can litter our [ Full article ] |
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