October 26, 2007
An open letter to Construction Zone Flagger Guy
Posted by mortonmalaise under Uncategorized[7] Comments
Dear Flagger Guy,
It is 510 PM. You are just south of Proctor Hospital on Knoxville. Please DO NOT WAIT UNTIL THE LIGHT AT PROCTOR TURNS GREEN TO PUT YOUR STUPID FUCKING STOP SIGN OUT IN FRONT OF THE SEMI THREE VEHICLES IN FRONT OF ME! Traffic has now backed up through the light because of the fuckfaces that pull into an intersection even though there is NO ROOM on the other side for their Tahoe. Oh, but by all means, turn the sign back to “slow†once the light turns red, so the 2 cars that cleared the light can go, but make sure you turn it back to “Stop†as soon as the light turns green. Please repeat this 6 times so I sit at the light in front of the God damn hospital for 15 minutes. Thanks ever so.
Yeah, I clocked it. 15 minutes. Probably around 8 light cycles. Know what I did as soon as I got through the light? Every batch of green-vested traffic jamming pricks I drove by, I honked my horn and flicked them off. It made me feel much better. I yelled some four-letter unpleasantries at stop/slow sign guy.
This construction is completely out of hand. Knoxville, University, Pioneer Parkway, all at the same time. Is anyone as excited as I am about the time when the Knoxville construction gets to the War Drive intersection? I think I’ll take a leave of absence from work for a few weeks. The idea of the drive down Knoxville from the Parkway to 74 taking an hour and a half just doesn’t excite me much at all. While it will be very nice to get down Knoxville without bruising my ass for the first time ever once all this is done, I wish they could work on it at a different time than University. IDOT can kiss my fat pale ass.
October 26th, 2007 at 11:13 am
Was it actually a guy holding the stop/slow sign. Usually that complex and demanding job gets assigned to the quota required woman on the crew
October 26th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
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October 26th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
I personally enjoy when they stick the sign in the orange barrel and stand next to it. Then, like Vanna White, they turn it as needed or for shits and giggles, I haven’t decided which.
October 28th, 2007 at 10:29 pm
Good point Barbie. Nothing like openly admitting that your taxpayer funded job can largely be accomplished by hunk of orange plastic.
October 31st, 2007 at 4:33 am
Nice to met you the other night….
October 31st, 2007 at 7:34 am
Nice to meet you last night. You were so polite, giving up your seat, (at least twice!) and complimenting one of my blog entries… thanks, it meant a lot. (I never think of myself as being funny, so that’s a huge compliment).
Jennifer
October 31st, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Yeah, but if they were courteous about that, you’d also think they’d stop working during the 8a-9:30a rush and the 4:30p-5:30p rush.
I’m convinced: they do it this way to piss us off.