(A letter to the Argentian Automobile Association. Translated version)
El Presidente, AAA,
1274 San Martin Ave,
Buenos Aires,
Argentina.
Dear sir,
As representatives of the Argentinian road user, I wrote this letter that you may improve your services in that arena.
Firstly, I must commend the condition, location, size and general design of your culverts. We have had cause to use them to escape the sun, intense heat, strong winds and electrical storms. At this time of year it helps that they are all compeletly bone dry, usually with a lovely flat bed of very firm sand. Ideal for that lunchtime break to brew a cuppa (the equivalent of your mate ceremony), or even that over night stay when the skies have turned to thunder, lightening and rain. They have truly been a refuge when the elements have decided to wreak havoc upon us.
However, I must temper this praise with admonition as to the condition of some of your ripio. Whist many are a fine example of the dirt road builders craft, many sections are little short of torture for a cyclist.
Ideed, I have thought to myself, whist struggling to survive riding the worst sections, that the only way the road builder could make the surface worse would be to deposit on the road a layer of 3/4" to 1 1/2" ball bearings interspersed with large irregular shaped blocks of dry ice and the dreaded three-pronged Texas thorn (Editor; a thorn which always has a spike facing upward, no matter which way it lands)
I urge you to take this matter of the poor condition of some of your ripio to the highest level inorder that some improvements may be made. I suggest a strip of smooth ripio only 18" wide would suffice, swept once a year after the winter snow melt.
Surely this is not too much to ask?
Your sincerely,
Mr. D. J. Dalziel,
2nd culvert,
Routa 40 over Rio Grande,
28k South of Bardas Blancas,
Argentina.
It's only the hairs on a gooseberry, that stops it from being a grape.
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