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Show funny bone J What potholes do for China? By MARY COONS ' The streets department crew took shovels, and proceeded to fill in the ! chuckholes on the canal bridge on I Nathaniel Drive, and I slowed to try to miss the crew and the deep holes. "Look-out, you guys," -I-said I -understand there is a Volkswagen that was lost the other day in one of the larger holes on this bridge!" They half-smiled, as if they had heard my well-worn joke a hundred times, and continued with their work. You might believe there are all disadvantages to the chuckholes, but you are wrong. Just think of it in terms of what your uncle who owns the garage that specializes in installing shock absorbers could leave you in his will. Why, if we keep having these rotten springs and summers, the man will be on the fortune 500 by the spring of 1985. What about the defensive driving - of -which you are becoming so fast and good?" Yotr -might.think that only professional racecar drivers -learn to turn quickly on a driving course. Hey, have you seen people and their maneuvers when they drive down Second South? You'd think there were dead bodies on the road, the way they avoid the canyons just before the stop sign. I wonder how many of the police in town watch drivers swerve around the holes from a distance, and how many they think are sober? As a simulation of the current space flight was being shown on the news the other night, someone asked a simple question. If we can do things as technical as that, why can't we find something to fill r 'craters' here on earth? I mean, h ;s a good question. The guys in the streets department probably get a little tired of filling .them, and no sooner do they get filled, than they are deeper than ever. I have another question, hisone comes from a child. If wo have the chuckholes here, does China get bumps in it from the dirt falling down to them? Go d question. I have no answer. . . do you? |