Street Lights

Three or four months ago, the city council decided to have stop signs placed at various intersections in the Little Town. Intersections where before there had not been a yield or stop sign. One such intersection is in front of my house. I'll be the first to admit that I rarely if ever stop at said intersection. The sign is within spitting distance of my driveway so I have already looked all directions before backing out into the street.

Let me remind you that my neighborhood is 90% retired folks. And I've just been waiting to see who will either run the stop sign and get a ticket OR hit the damn sign. And it finally happened when Kris and I weren't home. Our neighbor up the street has two granddaughters that frequent our street. And one of the granddaughters "bumped" the sign. No damage done to her or her vehicle. But the stop sign will need to be tweaked.

It was already dark when Kris and I drove up as the local law officer was taking pictures of the sign. During the course of conversation I made a comment to the officer about how dark it is in our neighborhood. (This is the same officer that is my backyard neighbor -- the one whose yard where the dead 10-point buck was discovered.) There are no city street lights within a three block range of my house. Dortha has a privately owned one on the east side of her house. And GoPa has one behind his house in the alley. That's it.

One of the things I plan on doing on Monday is to find out how to go about having a couple of street lights erected in our neighborhood. We've had a few recent instances take place that probably could have been prevented had we had a few lights here and there. Hhmm, wonder if I should petition my neighbors or not?!