Speed bumps

I don’t have any news story about this: it’s just personal observation. There are too many speed bumps in Las Vegas. They just put three of them in the driveway that leads out of my apartment complex, probably because the hammerheads that live there were speeding around the curving road that leads to Howard Hughes Parkway and causing accidents.

In addition, there are two speed bumps on my way into the UNLV parking lot I use. So that’s five I have to drive over, at least twice a day. I’m going to get my car’s suspension checked.

Back in Atlantic City, I remember one speed bump: the one out at the Shore Mall, when you pull into the parking lot by Boscov’s. Maybe there’s more, but that’s the only one that jumps out at me.

On the scale of things that bug me, it’s relatively minor, but hey, I thought it was worth mentioning. It’s be nice to see them just put up a sign saying, “DRIVE SLOW, MORONS” instead of a speed bump, just to see if people slowed down. Probably they’d speed up. So speed bumps might be a necessary fixture of urban life, especially with self-involved hammerheads who are in such a hurry to get to where they are going that they ignore common sense laws of safety.