Trying to Travel the Road Less Traveled

By Jan Chait Four blocks west and I'm out of my neighborhood. Two blocks north and I'm at a major east–west road. Another three blocks west and I'll be at the restaurant to meet a friend for lunch. Except… I'm not walking and I'm not driving. I'm riding a mobility scooter and the major east–west road is being repaved. Which is OK, since I ride my scooter on the sidewalk. Except… The road crews have moved the barrels and barricades that were blocking the lanes on the road onto the sidewalk so the asphalt machine can do its thing. Carefully, I maneuver around the barricades and barrels, going onto grass/parking lots/anything I can to get to the first cross street. Which I would have crossed, except… There was a ditch dug down the center of it. Luckily, a nice man from the road crew came to my rescue, leading me onto the freshly rolled asphalt so I could get to the sidewalk on the other side. The next two blocks weren't as bad as the last, but my friend, who had come from west of our meeting place, had to park at a fast-food joint on the other side of the major east–west road from the restaurant, which she couldn't figure out how to reach. Lunch was great, filled with food cooked on the premises and filled with…OK, I'll say it — gossip. The catching up on mutual friends type of gossip. After lunch? Sigh. I needed to go to the wireless store, the bank, and the grocery store. The wireless store was another four blocks west. The c...
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