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 
2005 Nissan Sentra. 

A baritone truck horn honked approvingly.
  
Both the blonde and the truck driver 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 Sentra, 
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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