Ok, @johnbishop. My story is sort of a car story. Here goes:

Picture this: I am 16 years old. The high school where I took driver's training had a fenced-in driving course with traffic lights, stop and yield signs all over the place. There were places to turn (practice using your turn signals - you would get marked down for not using them) and all sorts of little tricks. Well, on about the 3rd day of driver's training on the course, I got into a lane where there were these orange cones blocking my driving lane. I think: Oh no! What should I do?

Well, I did what any normal person would do. I got out of my car and started moving the cones out of my way. The driver's training instructor had evidently never seen such an ambitious student such as myself and yelled, "What are you doing!!!" Well, I said, "They are in my way. I'm moving them out of the way." (I thought he and all of the other students would be pleased with my taking charge of things and getting rid of the roadblocks.) He went on to inform me that the purpose of the cones was to learn to drive around obstacles. (So why didn't he tell me that beforehand, I wondered?) So, I put the cones back in place (the instructor is still shaking his head in disbelief).

In retrospect, I'm glad that I learned to drive around the cones. In Michigan, we will have a lot of them this Spring, Summer, and Fall as the road crews try to fix the roads after the winter salt.

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