Open letter to Drivers in Santa Fe N.M.

What is wrong with you people? Can you not read? Do you not know the meaning of the words “ROAD CLOSED”? Do you not care that you just came within inches of killing some poor bastard of a construction worker that is just trying to take care of his family and go home with all the same body parts that he left with?

The large signs on Grant Street that say ROAD CLOSED are there to close the road to traffic. By traffic we mean cars, trucks, ambulances, tour busses, motorcycles, and other motorized vehicles.

“But why is the road closed?” you might ask. That one is easy; the road is closed because in order to build that building, the people that build buildings have to work from the street. There is no room between the building and the street to set up equipment to do the things that need to get done. That is just the way it is. Things happen.

The city seems to feel that this is in fact so, and has agreed to close the street until February 15. That is why the signs are there. That is why there was a notice in the paper that the street was going to be closed.

Are we on the same page? One block of Grant Street in Santa Fe, New Mexico is closed. Just one block.

Why in the hell do you people think that it is OK to drive around these signs (or in more than one case that I have seen with my own eyes, OVER them) to avoid having to go around the block? Do you not see the big, brightly colored construction equipment in the street? Can you not see the worker bees that are all wearing orange vests with reflective stripes?

It seems to me that each and every one of the forty seven vehicles that I saw driving down this street in the last three days had one thing in common. They think that what they want is more important than some construction worker’s life.

The ones that piss me off the most are the judges and judge helpers that work across the street from the site. They just drive up to the barrier that impedes their progress and glare at some lowly, plastic hat wearing, undereducated slob, until he moves the barrier for them. And if the undereducated slob ignores the glare, the judge type person just drives over or around the offending barrier like so much tissue paper.

It is a good thing to learn that judges and judge helper persons do not have to obey traffic laws like the people they are judging. Better that I learn now than after I take a piece of metal bar to the next fucking car that misses me by inches or honks at me while the all terrain forklift that I am driving is in their precious, important, way while they ignore the fact that the other end of the block is open for them while this end is closed.

The traffic enforcement people from the city are more than happy to ticket some poor slob that parked too near the fire hydrant, but ignore the huge pickup truck driving the wrong way on a closed street around the huge ROAD CLOSED sign, barely missing construction workers, then driving on the sidewalk so he will not have the slightest possibility of scratching the paint.

Thanks for your help. I am feeling MUCH safer now.

So if you find your car has a new bumper sticker that says “I DON’T BRAKE FOR CONSTRUCTION WORKERS”, just be assured that it is a present from me to you.

You people seem to forget that I CAN read and write and jot down license numbers on the little pad that I carry, and when I see your car has that number, I will be leaving you a sticky, difficult to remove gift. Please ruminate on why it got there while you are trying to remove it.

I am so sorry that I had to put on your windshield, but I was more thoughtful than you and did not want to ruin your paint, asshole.

Signed;

Troll

PS I am hoping that you will be late in noticing the second bumper sticker that I put on your bumper that reads, "I LOVE KIDDIE PORN". I hope you have as many sleepless nights as I have.