Safety First!

According to the Sacramento News and Review, those yellow bumpy things at the street corners downtown are intended to assist the blind by acting as a sort of braille for the feet; indicating to the visually impaired that one is now standing on a street corner, and should therefore use caution when proceeding across the street.

I submit to you, fair reader, that the bumpy box on the ground is actually a safety hazard, and the very opposite of a display of sensitivity toward the challenged amongst us. I know this fact from experience. Think about it....you are walking along on the level concrete, rushing to work in the early morning fog. You come to the downward sloping corner, which has been overlaid with raised, yellow, plastic bumps of approximately 1" in diameter each, sloping downward. You are wearing flats, and the plastic patch of bumps is wet from the fog.

If you are me, you probably slip, your legs flaying into very painful splits. You might even fall. Wearing light gray dress pants. In front of a cute guy on a cuter motorcycle. He might get off his bike to help you gather all of your stuff....like your rolling laptop bag that rolled into the street, your now-broken travel mug that had moments ago contained your life-infusing morning coffee, and the contents of your purse, which have spead out north, south, east, and west. The very definition of humiliation.

It could happen.