Thursday, 8th October 2009
Holey Moley....
A few weeks ago everyone looked up into the sky and saw there was something missing...... i.e. The scorching Summer sun. Instead there were grey thick clouds and pretty soon it was pelting down! Everyone's Facebook statuses read the same ‘original' phrases "Missing Summer Already" or "Rain, rain go away, let us have some more sunny days" (that last one won the Pultizer Prize ...Yeah right!) while I just had one lingering scary equation in my mind. Rain+Water on our roads=POTHOLES!!!
And sure enough after the first rainstorm, there were potholes everywhere! The sheer ridiculousness of the situation was beyond me and I did start foaming at the mouth, knowing that I had to drive through some horrendous excuses for streets.
The first pothole I met was in Mosta right next to the VellaHallman showroom. It seems, a poor soul, who has to be prized for his ingeniousness (can you sense the tone of sarcasm here?) thought he would ‘warn' drivers about the hole by placing two over sized slabs of lime-stone sprayed in fading luminous green paint next to the ‘abyss'. The result quite obviously was that, people coming from the Lija area were forced to, quite suddenly and hazardously, jump into the other lane and people coming from the Naxxar area coming round the round-about drove straight into them!
I wonder if two lonesome red cones were having a coffee and some hobnobs somewhere in an ADT ‘prop' room. Let's face it, that's what they should call their signage and road safety signs..."Props" since no one ever seems to use them anywhere! I can just imagine giving children a walk-around in a museum. Picture it....2020 ..."and these are ...the red cones... they were never though to be of much use..and as you can very well see they are still in pristine condition" to which kids will reply with "ooohs and ahhhs."
I never thought roads could make me go red in the face and clinch my fists, but they do! Lately watching Xarabank an ADT spokesman said that different roads fall under the responsibility of ADT, MEPA and Local Councils. Frankly I don't care what falls under what. I have three great names for the three authorities reminiscent of some TV quiz games that made me smile, I would however change them to read the following.
ADT: ‘La Ruota della Fortuna' would change to ‘Sfortuna'
MEPA: ‘The Weakest Link' would remain as such.
The Local Councils: ‘Deal or No Deal' would simply be called ‘No Deal'!
Us, the local public would have to fit in a category aptly called ‘The Biggest Losers' except we won't be losing any weight, but our sanity.
Another thing that gets me going lately? Noise Friggin' Pollution! Does anywhere in Malta NOT look like a War Zone lately? I wonder. Jiggers, Jack Hammers, Grinders... they're the new IN thing. One can never enjoy a lunch-time meal anywhere without the nagging humming of a jack hammer in the background. One can never enjoy a quite walk in the valley without the distant ‘Shrieking' sound of a Chaser.
And last but not least, one can never be driving at 5:30pm, listening to their choice of music in the privacy of their car, without almost being given a heart attack when the bus driver right up your behind decides to violently honk his horn ad nauseum till the trail of traffic moves a millimetre!!
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BE CAREFULL who approaches you for political mileage and organise your own with the help of other personalities a xmas charity stint ? The " youths" should send a Strong signal to our misperforming parliamentarians
Marika
And I'm in love again tu tu tu tu tu tu
No reason to pretend I lost my heart to you