The Cancellation Of Nice

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A young man was stopped at a traffic light.

Facing him, from the oncoming turn lane, was a yellow 2012 Saturn
with matching blonde hair  behind  the wheel.

She was  looking straight at him and smiling while her left-turn signal flashed.

The young man smiled back at her  even though he was not in the turn lane.

He was in the only thru traffic lane, facing west. When the light  turned green,
he did not move his car but courteously signaled to the woman to make her turn
and she proceeded to do so.

Her smile widened as did a young man's spontaneous fantasy.
But then she was gone from his life.

A tractor-trailer,  immediately  behind her Saturn, also made the left turn
in front of the young man's 1999 Honda Civic.

A baritone truck horn honked approvingly.

Both the blonde and the trucker would no doubt regard this young man
as a nice person for yielding to their vehicles.

But if you looked in the rear view mirror of the Honda Civic,
you would  see no evidence of automotive gratitude.

Five irate drivers were delayed in the thru traffic lane even though
they had the right-of-way.

They could not move  their cars  until  the  Safeway truck,
with its mural of ten-feet-tall bananas and other lush fruit,
had completed a left turn.

All because of a "nice" young man.


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Footnote
THE CANCELLATION OF NICE is the copyrighted property of LCSoL.
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