Close to Home by John McPherson for February 09, 2021

That’s not a pothole it’s a sinkhole.

That’s not a POT hole, it’s a KETTLE hole! ;/

Or a cauldron hole.

Watch out! Here comes the Number 29 bus!

That’s not a pothole—that’s the city’s new underground parking deck.

We either get no Bleebs or two of ’em.

Looks like the new mayor is keeping his promise to go big on everything.

This gives me a sinking feeling…that would really be the pits!

I keep thinking alternately of Dune and Tremors. Could it be that sinister?

This is what happens, when Godzilla comes through town,

I didn’t know they moved to Panama (the country)!

At least fill them with pot. (Where legal).

I lived in Sun Valley, ID in the early 80’s. Pot holes were quite severe. April Fools Day the local paper ran an article about an individual that got trapped in one. He was found and made it out due to the fact that he happened to have an aircraft ELB with him and activated it.

A good New England road in March!

Lemme guess….New York City potholes?

Fort Wayne, Indiana

Gather ‘round kids, it’s time for another mask story from yer ol’ uncle Dobie!

There I was… in the break room at work, when I went to make a pot of coffee. There were a bunch of people in there, so I figured they could all use a cup as well. That’s when I discovered that there was only enough coffee for maybe one cup… one large cup at best.

Well, no one else seemed that interested in coffee, so I figured… ah, what the heck, and I’ll make what was left, just for me. Well, that’s when I discovered why no one was drinking coffee… it’s because there was almost no coffee left and absolutely no coffee filters.

Now, you kids oughta know me by now, I’m nothing if not innovative, so I did what I thought was completely innovative to me… I took my mask off and used it as a coffee filter. I mean, it was just gonna be for me right!? Well, it was then that a guy yelled over to me and said: “Hey! You need to have a mask on in here!” And he got up and walked over to me and started berating me for not wearing my mask. I was trying to get a word in edgewise to explain what I had just done, but he wouldn’t stop long enough to hear it. So I offered him the last cup of coffee as a peace offering and he took it.

As I was walking out, he was drinking the coffee. But before I left the room, I stopped and turned around and told him: by the way… there were no coffee filters. He said: “then, how did you make this one?” I just smiled and said: “Well, I was wearin’ a mask when I came in here!”

Well, kids, while he was chasing me out the door, he was yelling things your aunt won’t let me repeat in front of you kids, so I’ll end the story here. But suffice it to say, he wasn’t complementing me on what a good cup o’ Joe, that was… and no, he didn’t catch me. Oh, and as always… don’t mention this to your aunt.

Fix the dam roads.

Many years ago, my brother drove his Honda Civic into just such an enormous pothole during a rainstorm, which disguised its depth. Oddly enough, after three days of drying out, the car ran OK.

Sorry – pot is legal in your city.

That’s a KETTLE hole!!!

Call your congressman and urge them to tax the rich and big corporations even more! (Hope they don’t move to another state…)

The city has taken care of it, didn’t you see the pothole warning sign.

Many years ago I had an internship in Albany, NY that started in January. The first time I had to go grocery shopping I was driving just after dark in a blizzard and came upon a pothole that looked like this one on one of the main thoroughfares. Trying to divert around it at the tail end of rush hour traffic was not fun, but at least in a rare show of good sense had put up warnings, cones, etc. well before you got to it.

This literally happened in Columbus Ohio about 25 years ago. The “pothole” looked just like that and it swallowed a Mercedes.

It’s always pot holes or a—holes.

City officials are looking into it.

Houston, especially Richmond Avenue

When enough cars fall into it, there will be a nice flat surface to drive over. Problem solved.

I learned this year it takes a VERY small pothole to cause $3000. Damage to your car.

The pothole that ate Cincinnati.

Must be California.

Silly. That’s not where you find pot.