"Adopting A Highway?"

(Choose carefully)

Adopting a highway, a road, or a street?
It pays to make sure it's asphalt or concrete,
And that your shovel is meant for snow
Or you'll be helping its old pot holes grow.

A rounded blade, if that's what you insert,
Will quickly show you it's intended for dirt,
And won't be so easy to restrict to snow
The lower that you need to require it to go.

Most highway adoption papers say,
"Highway returnable exactly the way
It was when you chose to adopt it."
Sound like they might not want you to have chopped it?

Highway departments tend to look askance
If you or your shovel might have by chance
Excavated anything more than just snow
And your only excuse is, "Well, I didn't know…
I mistakenly thought it was my road to hoe."

Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
12/13/12