U-turn

I almost always do what my calendar tells me to do. But when I was nearly to my flamenco dance class on Tuesday, I made a U-turn and went back home. I realized I didn’t want to go.

I usually push myself to do things, because it’s easier to just stay home and read books. It’s good for me to be out and active. I had been hopeful about flamenco, but my first class, last week, wasn’t how I imagined. I had imagined that the flamenco class would be fun; good music and stomping exercise. What I got was short bits of slower music and careful, exact foot placement and choreography.

It took me until I was nearly there to realize, wait, that class is just not what I am looking for. While making a U-turn to head back home, I saw this sign.

I also almost always do what signs tell me to do, but yes, not only was I accidentally making an illegal u-turn, I was also fiddling with my phone to take this photo while making that illegal U-turn! OMG, don’t tell anyone.

Can you believe, I didn’t even notice the U-turn sign until I was home looking at my pictures! That’s because I was so intent on figuring out (and photographing) the blue sign below it.

These blue signs are all over our major intersections, so I knew that it had originally said, “Say no to handouts, Say yes to helping agencies serving those in need.” We have a lot of panhandlers at the intersections and these signs are the city’s way of discouraging it. However, someone took blue tape and white ink and altered it to say, “Say no to expensive signs…” Good point, right? I would love to see our city invest more directly into all those helping agencies (of which, like everywhere, we have far too few and they are far too poorly funded) and less in distracting signs.

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