In the beginning, right after the Earth cooled, oil discovered,
and the automobile conceived, there thankfully appeared a brilliant safety
device once known as the Turn Signal Indicator.
It was a simple, elegant invention, and it made the difference between
safe passage and catastrophe. Now,
sadly, it seems to be gone.
While bike trails are a separate adventure unto themselves (and
a tale for another day), most of our daily riding is conducted on roads we have
to share with dangerous, deadly creatures known as Drivers. And, as I am sure all of us have experienced
(in some case painfully), not all drivers possess the basic equipment necessary
to operate a motor vehicle. And, I just
don’t mean a license and insurance, I mean a brain.
To anyone whom has ridden a bicycle, or driven a vehicle, the
concept of announcing ones’ intentions to other motorists/cyclists, even
pedestrians, has pretty much been abandoned.
Call it laziness, or just a lack of concern for others, or probably
both, this simple courtesy should not have died so suddenly and quietly.
So, while some people long for a lost love, or simply the nostalgia
of the past, I long for the return of common sense, and within this realm, the
reemergence of the turn signal.
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