POTHOLES: We’ve had a couple of people get in touch with gripes about the condition of our post-winter roads.
One reader was particularly concerned with High Street, as well as Interstate Parkway near Bennett Street — and he wondered if our other readers had a “favorite catastrophic stretch” they wanted to talk about.
Duke Center author Bill Robertson expressed his frustration in verse.
“The condition of our local roads has become laughable!” Bill writes. “I wrote the attached satiric poem to keep from crying!
“I think the readers of ’Round the Square will agree with my assessment of the situation!”
MCKEAN COUNTY ROADS
“McKean County roads
Aren’t roads anymore!”
Yelled the peeved driver
As he cussed & he swore.
Roadsides were missing.
The berms washed away.
His shocks were all broken.
Wow! Did his car sway!
The highway was crumbled,
A veritable abyss.
Tank traps in Iraq
Were easier to miss.
While dodging a pothole,
Through ruts he had flown.
Now, perched on a rooftop,
His tires were all blown.
The higher gas prices
He had paid at the pump
Fixed not one highway
Turned his car into junk!
SOLO FLIGHTS: Today is the anniversary of two famous flights made exactly five years apart.
According to the Associated Press, “On May 21, 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis monoplane near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 33 1/2 hours.”
Exactly five years later, “In 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean as she landed in Northern Ireland, about 15 hours after leaving Newfoundland.”
