It’s gone beyond a joke now. Everywhere you turn, someone is cutting something. Usually a man from Whitehall.
It seems nothing is safe; every day you hear that some service or other – a service that you had hitherto presumed was sacrosanct – is being cut. And now, as we drive along our roads happily looking forward to a day at work or a weekend shopping, many of us are now wondering if our roads – especially the smaller ones – are next in line to feel the brunt of the cut-backs, mainly because they seem to be covered in pot holes.
Unfortunately, I’m not talking about the pleasant English tradition of exploring caves on our hands and knees, but instead the newer tradition of driving into dozens of potholes on our local roads; the only way these require us to get on our hands and knees is when we have to inspect the damage done to the bottom of our cars after hitting one. Even if you have the number for your car breakdown provider at the ready, this can get rather tiresome.
It does seem that the pinch on council’s budgets will be felt for some time to come, and that filling in the local pot holes is quite a long way down their list of priorities. Of course, there are a great deal many more important things to finance, but some of these little cavities will grow to become real hazards to UK motorists, many of whom already feel a little disheartened after a trip to the petrol pump, having found that the price of petrol has gone up yet again.
I almost feel like starting a pot holing charity: A local group that clubs together to buy a few bags of cement or sand, and goes around in the dead of night filling these horrible little holes in. It’s either that, or I’ll be giving my car breakdown provider many more calls over the coming months.
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