[PRCo] Re: (No

[Derrick Brashear]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Edward H. Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net> wrote:
> We will not be traveling if there is a foot of snow and 40 mph winds in the
> east, regardless of the situation here.  No one will come to work in
> Philadelphia to hear me, anyway.  I've had this happen before...one Sunday
> about 1974 I drove from Pittsburgh to Rochester NY for a dinner meeting with
> someone.  When I turned the corner at Buffalo I found a blizzard the rest of
> the way; the toll collector seemed somewhat surprised when I got off the
> Thruway, saying that the road was closed.  The man I was to have met called
> and claimed to be unable to get out of his driveway. So now I do not go out
> of my way to do someone else's business...besides, I retired, and was doing
> this only because I had agreed to last September.
>
> But I will miss the rest of the trip.
>
> The oak tree hasn't moved.  It's amazing the number of brainless motorists
> who refuse to believe the "ROAD CLOSED" sign and come up to stare at the
> blockade, then try to figure how to turn around.  Doesn't make you feel good
> about the future of humanity.

Too often signs indicating closure indicate actually that we don't
want people using something that is really there and passable just
fine. So, once you lie to people long enough, they take what you tell
them with a grain of salt.

Fix the real problem.

Derrick