You know your roads are bad when…

My beloved and long-lived Beretania Street pothole has been filled up. He’ll be back. The filling won’t last.

Old potholes never die, they just get covered up by election year street repaving only to rise from the grave like asphalt zombies whose only purpose in death is to destroy automobiles and terrorize drivers.

Maybe it’s just me, but has anyone else noticed that our rubble-filled streets often seem to get paved when an election is near? Somehow politicians think that annoying voters with road construction and street repair will remind them that their elected officials are acting in an official manner by funding long-overdue repair work.

Every locale has seasons. In Minnesota there are four seasons; snowing, still snowing, more snow, and road construction.

Hawaii has notable seasonality, too. Elections, scandals by elected officials, elected officials in session, money spent by elected officials.