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Apple Talk / Re: A SHOW OF HANDS
« on: February 08, 2010, 07:53:05 pm »Sometimes I want to drive off a bridge.
And miss all the cheap laughs?
You have to watch those bridges in Portland, I hear. They have a siren-song all their own, and then you go bumpity-bump face first along the bottom for a week or two...And when you wash up, you make the poor policeman lose his lunch.
Best to have fun, instead.
They do call to you. It's like in the moments approaching the bridge, you have this moment of wondering whether you'll be able to control the compulsion to veer sharply to the right, take that box right through the railing and over the edge to find the bottom below, whatever that might be. But you don't, most of the time; you white-knuckle the steering wheel and stay the course until you get to the other side and you're in the clear and you don't have to worry about it until you get to the next bridge.
But sometimes, even more than the call of the bridges, there's the desire to drive to the end of the world. I know exactly where it is.
So do I. Davidson Canyon on the East side of Tucson, Green Valley on the South end, Star Pass on the West, and Piccacho on the North.
Pictures of Piccacho should be posted on Portland Bridges. It would either increase the suicide rate, or eliminate it altogether.