Cutting the corners

They say we should concentrate on our driving. But when I’m rolling down the highway I see things that get my mind wandering to other topics. It’s often tangental and/or esoteric stuff, like whether deer really understand vehicles. So as I was driving one of the many wiggly sections of US101 I became aware of how the paint stripes at the middle of right-hand bends tended to be worn away. There’s a…