Ok no, not really, probably.
This morning, 5/19/2021, approximately 8:27 am EST (I was running a little late). Traffic light, red, and I'm second in line. I'm going straight across the busy main road, but the vehicle in front of me is turning left. (Or at least s/he has a left turn signal on, which should indicate a plan to turn left, but I find I shouldn't assume s/he means s/he will be turning left right now. Probably at some point today. Or tomorrow.)
The light turns green. Left turner in front of me turns left. (I know, right? I'm as surprised as you.) There is another vehicle coming down the hill from the opposite side, also with the left turn signal on. I go straight across. Well, I try to. But that guy isn't going to stop!
I stop in the middle of the road.
And Mitch MoConnell gives me the stink eye as he cuts me off to turn left towards the downtown/antique district.
Well, it looked like Mitch. It probably wasn't him. I know what he looks like, tho, not just the random news pics on SNL's Weekend Update.
I diligently vote to Ditch Mitch every six years. He's been the US Senator from Kentucky since 1985 and I didn't start voting until 1988, so I had nothing to do with him initially getting into office. Apparently he really dug himself in during those first few years, because he's still there despite my thirty-two years of effort. Of course, I don't really want him moving back to Kentucky. No, he can just stay in D.C., just not representing me. Dude tried to kill me! Or not, as the case may be.
Anyway, an old man with jowls and no real chin believed he owned the road and glared at me -- me! -- for trying to assert my just-crossing-the road right of way. Which seems very Mitch.
Moral: Never meet your heroes. And never let politicians who have outstayed their welcome injure you with their old white man entitlement.
(It's a very important message, but the wording could use a little work. I'll try to come up with something a little snappier. Something that sings. In the meantime, let's all ditch Mitch.)
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