Don't Blink

Potholes... They suck... a lot. Like winter is bad enough with all the snow and rain and cold and shit but come February and March when the snow finally melts away enough to see the dead grass underneath, you are left with these goddamn potholes all over the state, that no one seems to care about. I had a pretty cool conversation recently where I used these stupid annoyances as a sort of metaphor, it was pretty cool, it involved traffic and exits and mileage and pretty well thought out on my part, but that's not the reason behind me writing this post today. I happened twice and I think you might have missed it once and seen it once... but this is tough because if you blinked at that exact second you would have had no idea. In that split second I saw myself in the corner of the computer, I cracked, it was small, it was very brief, but it was there. The side of my left eye crinkled the slightest bit and my forehead scrunched slightly, and then it was gone. So if you blinked, thankfully you missed it. I'm not one for sharing but you're not one to be fooled so it would have caused an explanation and I'm not sure I had any answers for those questions. There are times when I feel like I blink and a month passes and I miss a whole lot, or I'll blink without even realizing it and something will be totally different, and sometimes, I don't care to know what I missed. But that could be the John Mayer talking, he has abandonment issues and a severe case of what I call "being a narcissistic asshole". So that might not be the best writing music right now but it will have to do. And for an asshole he makes some very solid points, "Who Says","Clarity" and "Half of My Heart"  have been repeated quite a few times today. Potholes suck, and you can't stop yourself from ever blinking so there will be days when you wake up and your staring one big pothole in the face and there's really only two things to do in that situation, sit there and stare at it, scared of what kind of damage it may or may not cause, or drive forward over it and see where that leaves you. The funny thing is I thought I drove over the pothole a while ago, but I blinked and there it was again, so I guess I'll just have to deal. And the thing that sucks about potholes the most is that they don't just trip you up. They are on the road and everyone else on that same road will run into the same pothole, their car could be better suited to drive over it than yours, or not... So that's my ten cents on Rhode Island's infrastructure problem.

See you around
Matthew