A New Enemy (Part 2)

If you read my entry titled "A New Enemy," posted in October, then you'll appreciate this. Indy got hit with its first real snowfall yesterday. Accumulation was only about an inch. Even so, the snow combined with the speed bump spelled disaster for our mailbox. Yes, that's right. By noon yesterday our mailbox was demolished when a driver hit his brakes on the speed bump and slid into our yard. Ugh.

Fortunately, the driver was nice enough to stop to tell us and has offered to pay for a new one. But we don't expect this will always be the case, which leaves us in a difficult situation. While David was picking up the remaining pieces of our mailbox, he saw two more vehicles hit their brakes and start to slide into our yard. Out of concern for our own safety, other pedestrians' safety, and less importantly the safety of any future mailboxes, we are writing a letter to our neighborhood association to address the issue. I doubt anything will come of it, but we are so annoyed with the whole issue that we have to do something. If this happened after just an inch of snowfall, I can't imagine what's in store for the rest of the winter.

David did some quick research to validate our concerns, and it turns out that having speed bumps in residential neighborhoods is not necessarily the most effective tool for rectifying reckless driving. I could go on and on, but I get riled up just thinking about it. So I'll stop here.

Speed bump: 1
Stelsels: 0

Stay tuned....

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