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For the last year, my wife and I have lived at the corner of a fairly busy intersection in a small Southern city. It’s the intersection of a major four-land road–the main Westbound artery out of downtown–and a small, two-lane residential street that is the main access into two adjacent neighborhoods.
In the time we’ve lived here, we’ve seen seven car accidents at our intersection. Nobody has been seriously hurt in them; they’ve all been stoplight rear-ends or somebody running a red and getting T-boned.
We thought it would be interesting to blog the activities and accidents at our corner from our front porch, high above the street. This blog won’t move much, but when it does, it’ll have the good stuff–car wrecks, mangled fenders, and possibly even fist fights.
I think there’s much more to be blogged about at that intersection than car wrecks. For instance, you got your dorm parking lot hijinks and people screaming crazy stuff at each other all the time from cars stopped at the red lights. There could be a ‘quotes overheard’ section. You could even get in on the action and stir some shit up rather than just sitting around passively observing–specially during summer, which is the slow season for Friendly and Mendenhall action but the perfect time for front porch sitting.
Comment by Sara — June 2, 2006 @ 1:23 pm