This is not crazytown

Slow Down by Dirty Heads https://www.shazam.com/track/468217988/slow-down?referrer=share

Why does traffic have to be traumatic? It doesn’t! We have a high population density of residents, tourists, and student drivers from all over the world. This song resonates because of two reasons; I’m a mom with young drivers on the road and secondly, we are all headed to the same place. Leave the ego maniacal attitudes at home, or read some articles why controlling your car becomes a personality conflict. We are all students of the earth and I know I make mistakes, so if we make mistakes slower, maybe less casualties.  Speed kills. On I-95, US1 AND the auto pedestrian rates rise every year. A1A Jimmy Buffett highway is the worst for distracted drivers killing distracted beach goers. How sad to go on vacation to die. Use crosswalks, mind the medians, EYEZ UP PEOPLE! It can wait. If you feel different,  you drive differently.  Cocoa is notorious for auto vs bikes. Brightline train has many spin offs on social media for the killings.  Transportation around these parts have seasons.

Snowbirds come down, new drivers join up, and the residents are just trying to get somewhere….another song by Dirty Heads which I learned in traffic on my favorite radio station EVER WRRJ. (Sorry Jake FM) Traffic trauma is one of the main reasons I’m working on this blog. I was rear ended at 45mph at a red light by a hit and run driver which caused a bone chip from my neck hardware to press on spinal cord. He got out of his car and yelled at me irate that I was stopped at a red light and then swerved around me. He had a dark navy BMW and a small older woman in the front seat. His BMW lifted up my SUV and when it landed I felt that hand tingle. It also slipped a disc at my T-10. Why did you yell at me, then leave Sir? The bone chip finally fused and I haven’t seen him again. I like bumper stickers to show depth and distance to low vision or altered drivers for this very reason.

So plan ahead on traffic delays, landing helicopters on the road, and scary angry egomaniacs. Take a nail kit for the car line at school, secure your dog, child, baby goat, cat, whatever you have in there that you value. Lock it up at night too! We have wild banshees go thru our neighborhoods checking car doors to steal. Sometimes there are weapons stolen out of gloveboxes by this group.

Calm down it’s Melbourne,  was born of the traffic issues. We are not crazytown, Southbeach, Miami, Jax, Tampa, or Orlando at rush hour. (Not recommended for beginners.)

Take care.