Our road has been in the midst of a revitalization project since 1932. Ok, that may be a slight exaggeration, but it certainly seems like it has been forever.
Our local authority geniuses decided a couple years back that everyone in the township should have to be hooked up to the city sewage system. My guess is that the only reason for this decree was that they wanted everyone to have to pay the monthly fee for such services, and they couldn't charge people who weren't using it.
So, house by house they began this massive project, up and down the road. And pretty much everywhere they added the new sewage connections, they had to make a huge mess of the road. The end result was a road that looked as though it had been maintained by al-Qaeda. There was a really long stretch of time where we just had this... "road," which is basically a mile-long Pothole of Doom.
At the beginning of July we all got excited and optimistic when an actual road crew showed up and started doing some sort of work. We figured it would be, what, maybe a couple weeks and we'd have a nice new road that we had been promised.
Well, here it is... September, and the road still looks like crap with no end in sight. The road is basically an obstacle course where we have to weave around cones and holes and flags and oncoming traffic. It would make for a great sobriety test.
For the last few months the road has been in the hands of a 4-person crew -- Larry, Curly, Moe and the Obligatory Flag Babe. Once in a while the OFB also drives a steam roller thing, which makes me nervous.
Anyway, I really hope that someday we'll have an actual road to drive on. Mrs. Smoot suggested we simply rent a helicopter to get around.
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