Opus 2026-159: Times Are a’ Changin’

I continue to worry about the children of Texas.  My wife got pulled over recently for not driving 20 miles an hour a half a mile away from a school.  You have to plan your trips to make sure that you don’t go by schools around here because with all the parents lined up to pick up their precious children, the school buses having control over the highway, and the speed limits that are absolutely ridiculous it’s hard to get around.  We have one place here where the road goes by a high school and in the middle of the day when children theoretically are all in the classes it’s still set at 20 mph.

I have a theory, which I think I mentioned before, that you can tell the intelligence level of the kids in a neighborhood by the speed limits they post outside their school.  We have a private Christian school that we drive-by on a regular basis the speed limit there is 40 miles an hour all the time and 35 miles an hour when the children are being picked up.  If you going to other towns by public schools and this speed limit again is often 20 miles an hour.  I shutter to think about how I used to walk home from school on a 4 lane road and cross that 4 lane road without crossing guards, flashing lights, signals or anything else like them.  I survived.

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