Bumper Crop

Some websites get a lot of hits, and there's the old-fashioned drive-by kind.  But I get hits just backing out of my drive-way because I live on 19th Avenue, which Gary Kamiya describes (in Cool, Grey City of Love:  49 Views of San Francisco) as a street that couldn't be uglier.

Clubs have been a big part of my life.  The Club Toruno-Martin.  The Jo-Mama Book Club.  Now I seem to have founded the hit-of-the-Month Club.  (Because of the traffic/street involved, maybe I could call it The Hit Parade.)

I've certainly given a new meaning to bumper crop.

So how do I avoid this?  I wait for a red light so the cars slow down except when they're racing to wait.  I make sure that someone is waiting for me.  Only then do I pull out.  I know I should look in all directions before pulling out, but if I did that, I'd almost never make it out of the garage.  This way I make it out of the garage on 19th Avenue--and into Will's AutoBody Garage on 19th Avenue.