Thank you to the fine fellows of the Mount Pleasant road crew for their stellar work in patching up the onerous potholes on Elwood in between the firehouse and the train station.
Motorists hit potholes and say, geez, that wasn’t good for my undercarriage.
Cyclists hit potholes and say, MOTHER%@*&%$#! THAT *&%$ING HURT!
So thank you for giving me a much smoother ride in the morning.
Of course, I’m not sure it makes up for the absolute treachery you guys wreaked with your snow plows this winter, turning about half the black cinder curbs of Hawthorne into piles of rubble.
Speaking of our local road crew, I’ve noticed men working on the tiny would-be village square (perhaps “hamlet triangle” is more apt) near the train. They’ve ripped up the sidewalk and put in a cobblestone piazza sort of thing.
Which is well and good, except, well, the sidewalk was in perfectly good shape to begin with, as I remember it. It’s also one of the painfully few sidewalks in Hawthorne, so maybe they could’ve, ya know, put 50 feet of new sidewalk in somewhere where we didn’t have one.