Longtime reader Tam D, my Crack San Francisco Bay-Area Correspondent©®™ since time immemorial, earlier this week commented on last Sunday's post "A note on potholes," remarking:
DEAD SLOW has been my mantra in parking lots ever since I saw you coin the phrase* a while back. It's probably saved me a few fender benders, if not lives.
Me too.
But in recent years I've taken things to the next level, and I'm now ready to share this revelation with the world right here.
Before you back up or emerge going forward from a parking space, turn on your hazard lights.
Instantly you've got highly visible blinking red lights emanating from all 4 corners of your vehicle.
Trucks automatically make repeated loud sounds when they back up as a cautionary measure: now you too can join the SAFE club.
*Tam's understandably chuffed about her inside knowledge emanating from these precincts but I must note for the sake of accuracy that I didn't coin the phrase "DEAD SLOW" but, rather, like her, adopted it as a practice once I happened on it.
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