Funny how potholes just show up seemingly randomly over night. My interpretation is that they are road acne. Just when the road was smooth with a great complexion on the way to an important meeting, the crater shows up and spoils the day.
This year the craters seem particularly harsh. It seems it isn't just a local problem either. People in all maritime provinces have mentioned them which means that the weather must have been particularly bountiful for this years crop. It has become a game of pothole frogger for commuters on their way to work everyday.
Kelly and I were driving out of a parking lot from a grocery store recently and the view from the car was basically a an overhead vantage of a small lake. I bet that fish could have lived in it. I actually asked Kelly to have a look and let me know if anyone was sitting at the bottom of it helplessly stuck.
What I don't understand is how there isn't some sort of expansion foam or quick-crate temporary fix that is available for these. Are the tire shops outside with pick axes just randomly throwing a few of these things in for unsuspecting drivers at merge lanes? Why can these holes not be fixed quickly on a temporary basis? We live in an era that Dolly the sheep was literally duplicated and created in a lab, where I can have a FaceTime meeting with someone in another country and have the language translated by a website on the fly. Are we being asked to believe that it just isn't possible to find a temporary fix for a few holes in the pavement? Yes Jason your phone can recognize by your pupil reaction what you like and don't like, then will send advertisements to your social media based on that...but fix a hole in the pavement....now you're getting a little crazy.
In my drivers education class when I got my licence, the instructor told me never to swerve for a squirrel, dog, cat, etc. Swerving in traffic is too dangerous. The animal is the sacrifice in this case....and yet complete disregard for the canyons that are growing throughout our streets as traffic zig zags around them like a 120 handicapper on a golf course.
I guess we just continue to play traffic golf with our tires until summer time because that's the way its always been done. The problem is just accepted as the norm and we continue to move around without addressing it in any sort of solution. I guess maybe I'm asking for too much. I guess I'll just finish typing this up here on the MacBook that doubles as a recording studio, post it to a website for all the world to see and wonder if the technology will ever come about to fill a hole in the street.