I LOVE HAVING FUN, BUT SOMETIMES…
We’re better at using our mouths than our eyes…
Think before opening your mouth: what parent hasn’t said that to their children? And it’s something that holds just as true for we Pistunzens as it does for you humans. You might say to me: “Well, when the engine’s running, you pistons don’t just talk, you make it sound like all hell is breaking loose!” Point taken. But that doesn’t stop us seeing and reasoning either.
It really does make me incredibly sad to see, for instance, punches of flowers laid at a roadside to mark the site of a tragic accident. If you look closely (and you won’t need Hercules Poirot or Sherlock Holmes to help you), you’ll quickly spot the guilty party. A pole ill-placed to divide up a traffic island, a light post at the side of the road, a badly signposted and lit roundabout that some poor devil has smashed into in the dark of night, and so forth.
Signs have a huge role to play in these tragic cases: oftentimes a sign that’s either not clearly visible or too close to what it’s warning of can cause drivers to take actions that begin a chain of events the outcome of which is unpredictable to say the least.
What more can I say on the subject? This: please highlight any dangerous spot where there has either been a serious accident or looks as if there soon will be. Use the web to do so, bring it to the attention of your local newspapers and TV stations. Lots of voices together will have more impact than one. I can vouch for that as I adore being one of 12 pistons in a fine Ferrari engine. As the old saying goes: there really is strength in numbers.
PUBLISHED IN PISTUNZEN'S BLOG BY PISTUNZEN ON 11.03.2011
Credit: Ferrari S.p.A. (www.ferrari.com)
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