i live in a beautiful neighbourhood in uptown waterloo. we pay a reasonable amount of rent for a beautifully decorated, 3 bedroom house, with a large backyard, deck, covered front porch, and lovely flowerbeds. the thing that was NOT described in the superfluous write-up was that we were located on a very, very busy through-fare. now, our street is parallel to king street by about one and a half blocks, and people tend to make left-turns onto our street at the closest intersection, 200 metres from our house. now, i don't know what the deal is, but EVERYONE seems to get super excited that they're finally on park street!! and they feel the need to push their well-manicured toes just a little teeny weeny bit harder on the SUV petal than is probably necessary, or rev their BWM just a little harder in the 1st-to-2nd gear transition, to get that "extra pick-up" that is definitely necessary right off the hop, to prove that you can.
so here's the thing. tuesday night, joy and i were enjoying a lovely bottle of wine, accompanied by marbled cheese and crackers, after work on our front porch. it was well after midnight. there were a few times that we actually couldn't hear the other person talking because a car was flying past us.
seriously? where are you rushing to at 12:45AM?
in a suburb?
i realize that sometimes (okay usually) people like to drive as quickly as possible, to waste as little time as possible. i get that. i DO that. but....in a suburb? directly after turning left? and...when you have to stop again in about....7 seconds?
it is for all of these reasons, and more (i'm sure i could spout more reasons, like that we're part of a time warp or something. what, that's totally legit), that i have nicknamed our portion of the street "ACCELERATION CORRIDOR". that's right, people. and in case you have forgotten, a 'corridor' is sometimes used to describe a particularly voluminous section of roadway, not normally associated with suburban roads, but in this case, helps prove my point. athank you very much.
X <--the next stop sign X <-- my house
←←←←←ACCELERATION CORRIDOR←←←←←
← = path of vehicle
if you'd be interested in proving me right, feel free to stop by the house. our porch really is nice. and we can swap bits of conversation in between our heavy-footed friends.
