Our Bridges Are Back!!
Our bridges are back and traffic is once again flowing along the Coast. This tidal surge of traffic with its ebb and flow seems different now than before Katrina. In my mind’s eye I want to remember a more patient and leisurely approach to get from Ocean Springs to Bay St Louis and back, but I would have to go back to a time before Casino’s.
A time filled with The Sun and Sand, Buena Vista sunsets and the Broadwater Hotel. A time when Biloxi, a sleepy little fishing village, where you could witness the Sea and Sirloin walking hand and hand along the beach on their way to the Amusement Park. A time when you knew the doughnuts were fresh, just out of the oven, the strobe light blinking overhead. A time when Closer to the Edge was not just a record album but also a hot little Night Club filled with twenty-five cent Pong machines and pool tables. A time when the vapors were not the stench from seafood factories or the piles oyster shells baking in the sun, but a mind set you got to, while dancing your nights away at a club with the same name.
I am glad our bridges are back and I am, to some degree, in line with the Butch Brown way of moving traffic. I can’t help to think, what is the true cost of our progress? I’m not talking about the almighty dollar, but the cost of our lost patience as a society. I ask you, are we not unleashing another storm? One of discourteous, self absorbed, cell phone talking, impatient, I was here first, and not in front of me you don’t attitudes. A storm if you will, of red light runners, yellow light speed uppers,Left lane slow downers, the XXX rated music of the thump thumpers and the drivers who are totally oblivious to the world out side the scope of their immediate frontal vision. Middle fingers have risen in some sort of Coastal defiance that has taken the term “Birding” to a new and unsightly level.
I will admit that at one time or another I have been guilty of one of the before mentioned acts of impatience. I would also venture to so say, that we all have had those moments when you get so caught up in our own here and now and in the blink of an eye, slip into a character, we might not be proud of later. It’s okay though, its life and stuff happens; we are just humans being humans. So the next time you’re stuck in traffic with your patience at a point of being as thin as a Mickey D’s burger, stop and remember the traffic the first couple of months after “Katrina” and you will realize its not so bad, “Katrina” gave us all a wealth of patience to draw from.
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