Drivers have mixed reviews on the yoga silhouette embossed envelopes holding parking tickets in Cambridge, Massachusetts. According to reports, these alleged calming parking violation citations are designed at no extra cost to the city by an inside-department artist named Daniel Peltz. No comments have been made regarding Peltz’s official job title, however it’s noted Peltz’s hobby is, in fact, artistry. The creative improvements to these envelopes were approved based on a theory that if drivers see these yoga symbols, perhaps the downward facing dog or warrior pose, the artistic liberties being taken could inspire these drivers to feel an enlightened sense of peace, despite being fined for a lack of consideration for the law while abandoning their vehicles. It’s a bold decision to take the common meter maid/man and elevate them to a position equivalent to a civil bodhisattva.
But perhaps many cities could benefit from alternative forms of law enforcement. After all, in modern society, an increase of mental soundness among regulation violators could significantly improve social conditions in any metro area. Take for instance this scenario: I propose Houstonian civil engineers implement a design for a more Feng Shui metro roadway system in our great city. The proposal should note that traffic accidents might be less stressful if the majority of collisions were situated in cosmically sound directions. I base my suggestion on a belief that by mandating all streets run in a west-to-east direction prior to 12:00 p.m., and the opposite thereafter, a noticeable increase of positive energy flow through drivers’ vehicles would be measured. All parties involved would be of sound temperament and react to their collision rationally. And although there is a potential increase of auto accidents on account of poor visibility from sunlight, such Nirvana resulting from accidents would reduce if not eliminate hit and runs within city limits, as well as many people’s ability to arrive at work. This, of course, will be on account of no existing route to work if you must travel away from the sun to get there. The benefit is a decrease in accidents that occur en route to one’s workplace, canceling the predicted increase previously mentioned, just another advantage of adding a little alternative spiritual medicine to our culture.
The only foreseeable disadvantage to this proposal is the predicted resistance from companies such as Allstate, Geiko, and Statefarm. The new wave roadway system I propose will certainly increase the business of insurance companies, but eventually decrease their profit cash flow in the long haul. This resistance from insurance claims representatives has the potential to ultimately reform the institution of insured drivers drastically, a civil crisis for which I currently have no proposed solution at this time. But since those individuals make up a small population of our community, I believe this proposal will meet little more opposition, and will be met with enormous reception on this November’s voting ballot, assuming voters have no problem with their rates going up astronomically.
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