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The American Shoulder

Among the plethora of things in our everyday life there are many unsung heroes.  One of them is the 'shoulder'.  Not necessarily the one some may need to cry on, as a part of the human anatomy but the one on the side of the road.  No I don't mean that of a homeless person either.  I mean the literal side of the road (on the left or right). You see America is the land of plenty and therefore has plenty of land.  Duh!  What that did is that it allowed for the road engineers to think of a situation where an automobile on said roadway would need to park itself, while still traversing this road, in the event that the 'mobile' portion of its ability was rendered not so.  Ergo the 'shoulder'. This is a piece of pavement designed specifically on either side of roadway to allow a vehicle to pull over and out of the way of other mobile machinery that otherwise would have to suffer the same fate - that of being stranded.  But this shoulder idea is aweso...

Rules of the rode

Each rider of any form of road conveyance in India is permitted to define their own take on what mechanism or thought process to employ to transport their own being to their intended or maybe not intended destination. This requires an innate Zen like ability to focus on seeing the path where mere mortals aka foreigners may not see any.  This practice has been cultivated over millennia and does not require the observance of man made color coded lights to dictate next steps when in charge of a form of transportation. Our role modes aka Deities employed  animal power including cows, tiger, rodents to teleport themselves so smoke belching contraptions take note. Direction of travel is also a vague western notion along a highway or byway.  One should be able to perform any radius turn in any direction at anytime to reach their desired path.  In some towns or cities there may appear mask wearing, helmet donning, creatures waving their frontal extremities or practici...