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Yesterday the belt that drives both the air conditioner compressor and, by proxy, the power steering pump in my car broke. So it’s hot inside and it’s hard to steer. And even *I* can avoid the new traffic calming/pedestrian island additions to Dale Drive.

A flurry of emails went out on the Queen Anne’s listserv about someone – who claims they were driving carefully – losing a tire on one of these pedestrian islands. How the hell did they not see the big orange cones?

The moral of the story, people: slow the frak down and don’t be such an idiot. People are walking across Dale from downtown to the Sligo Creek area all the time (hear me, l.b.?). And as I recall, the speed limit on Dale is 30mph (25 near the middle school during school hours). If you bust up your car, stop complaining and shut the hell up. It’s your own damn fault.