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Dick Peterson Road construction makes this driver's blood boil I should know better, but I'm just like everyone else. I disdain being delayed by road construction. There is no more futile dislike. When I am in the car, I want to go and I want to go fast - no more than 55 mph on the open highway, of course - and I don't want anything in my way. Like flagmen, barricades, temporary stop lights and one-lane traffic. Road construction is one of those things that will make no one happy. We're not happy when we have to drive over something akin to washboards; not your piddling laundry room type, but railroad tie type. The ones that spill your coffee, biock your glasses off, rate a 6.7 on the Richter scale and induce labor in pregnant women. I've been on all sorts of roads like that. And I always wonder where my gasoline tax dollar is going. Like everyone else, I start looking for a conspiracy. All that money has to be going into the next county or state, I think as I bump along. Or Jamaica, which probably has the best roads in the world. I've never been there and I know nothing about Jamaica, so I can say that without qualification. If I'm driving on a road that I mistake for a ditch, I'll blame it on Jamaicans and their fine but ill-gotten roads and their friends in Illinois or whatever state I happen to be bouncing through. You've got to blame someone. Sooner, usually later - at least before the general citizenry begins rioting in the pot-hole infested streets - road construction begins. Then it never ends. I've seen some summers last an eternity because of road con­ struction. My gasoline tax dollar is finally at work, but I never realised how far it could stretch. Or is it that I never realized how far a one-mile road project can stretch? I get confused. I blame the knots on my head for that. Hie signs of road construction are obvious, and I'm not talking about the group of 15 cars in the other lane that appears to be traveling together. I'm talking about real signs. First, there's the one warning of road construction three miles ahead, as if there is anything you can do about it in the middle of nowhere. Then there's an identical sign, only this one is for two miles ahead, then one mile ahead, 1,000 feet ahead, 500 feet ahead, 499 feet ahead, 498 feet ahead. In the last 1,000 feet drivers are warned of flagmen ahead, one- lane traffic ahead, rough road ahead, another flagman ahead, reduce to a baby's crawl ahead, obscene gestures punishable by jail ahead, take a ride on the Reading Railroad or a slow boat to China ahead. Hie other day we were out and about in the car and we came upon a sign - with no warning - that the bridge was out ahead. No detours, no ferries, no nothing. Every man for himself. £ arar$qjaj£ that kind of adventure. I'm going to write the governor about that one. The last sign is my favorite, "Thank you. Road con­ struction ends." Somehow, that sign does not seem to be too sincere. If they were really sincere, they'd give us Mc­ Donald's gift certificates. I've been on the other side of the signs, also. One summer I made the big bucks on a road construction crew. On this project, the entire 10-mile rtretch of road was shut down for all of the summer and a good part of the fall. We gave motorists a scenic detour to follow. That way we didn't have to be interrupted by impatient travelers. You know the kind of people I'm referring to. The kind who are never happy. Hie kind who would just as soon run over a flagman. The kind like me. They say sticks and stones may break your bones, but names will ever harm you. We construction workers were thin-skinned. The names would have hurt, and some of my co-workers were the type to try to prove the sticks-and- stones theory. By closing the road altogether, all involved were spared physical and mental iiyury. Road construction, or the lack of it, is a no-win situation. As long as my roads are smooth and construction is done on the road I'm not on, I'm content. liMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii riiiiiiiiiifiiiiiii \fS YELLOW TAGS MEANS 20% OFF •HARDWARES •HOUSEWARES •TOYS •GIFT ITEMS •SPORTING GOODS •ELECTRONICS «LAWN& GARDEN •HUNTING 'MUCH, MUCH MORE COME EARLY WHILE SELECTION IS BEST M-F 9-9 SAT 9-6 SUN 9-5 Goast to Coast McHENRY MARKET PLACE 3*54*55 Library sets budget meeting PAGE 3 - PLAINDEALER - FRIDAY, JULY Utl*W Hie Board of Trustees of the Johnsburg District Library will hold a special meetifig on Monday, July 16. Hie purpose of the meeting is to adopt the tentative budget and appropriation ordinance for the Johnsburg Public Library District. The special meeting will be held at the library and will start at 7 p.m. The Johnsburg District Library will be ^closed on Tuesday July 17, to allow the construction of a handicapped access ramp at the front en­ trance to the library. The ramp is required as a part of the library's membership in the Northern Illinois Library System. NIMC Continued from page 1 establishing a hospital. Con­ tending that state legislation s unforeseen by Ames at the time of his death had made building such a facility near Crystal Lake impossible, attorneys asked the court to deviate from the terms of the will and award them the money. The city of Crystal Lake, on behalf of the library, and the bank said Ames intended his bequest be used to benefit residents of the city. If a hospital could not be built nearby, then the money should be given to some cause benefiting all idents. Richard Flood, attorney for Home State Bank, said those appealing the case will have to convince the three-judge ap­ pellate court that Brody reached a decision that no reasonable man could have reached based cm the evidence. "I don't think Judge Brody made an error. I am fairly confident that we will be suc­ cessful on appeal," Flood said. 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