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Work begins this month on a roundabout to connect St. Peters Road with Belvedere Avenue and Brackley Point Road, the site of many traffic violations. - SaltWire Network fileSometimes I think I should give up driving to save my life. I turn 75 soon and want to make it there. But since supermarket parking lots have become raceways, twice in the past week, I’ve had to slam on the brakes to avoid being broadsided by young men racing through to God knows where in such a hurry.
Then there was the total out-and-out breaking of the traffic laws, for sure. I was at the traffic lights where Belvedere intersects Brackley Point Road and exits to St. Peters Road. Two cars in front of me, and I can clearly see the traffic light situated on the grassed area of the Esso gas Station, and then the traffic lights across the St. Peters Road. My feeling is, I wait until the traffic light is green on the Esso property, before I go forward. Aha! Not so for the two drivers ahead of me.
This level is known as the Peter Principle and it is ubiquitous. Let me give you an example of this theory in action: Justin Trudeau and Joe Biden. What else can I say?Yesterday I enjoyed a lovely meal at a restaurant in Summerside. Everything was great but for one small detail... I was dressed for summer with shorts and a light shirt but unfortunately, the air-conditioning in the restaurant made it feel like a winter day.