First Knucklehead anniversary

A year has passed. March 17th 2005 was the day I gave out my first Knucklehead award.

It was posted at my chess blog. Here is how an award was born.

Goes to a unknown truck driver in Unincorporated Lantana. What makes him the winner?

He tried to make a left hand turn from Old Congress Ave Northbound to Lantana Road west bound. In other words a left hand turn across the six-lane road without help of a traffic signal. I was the unlucky soul to have to wait this drama out as I had somewhere to go at the time.

So when Dumbo finally got a minimal hole he began crawling out in Lantana Road. Leaving the tin can blocking 3 lanes of traffic of course. To complete the turn the driver brought Lantana Road to a grinding halt. Wouldn't it have been so much simpler and safer to have gone through the parking lot/shopping center at Congress and Lantana and just got out onto Congress Ave Northbound? He could then have made a left turn onto Lantana Road Westbound there, or gone north on Congress. It doesn't take alot of brain power to see this would have ten times easier without causing Lantana Road to come to a halt. But drivers of all types are a selfish breed. Rarely thinking of anyone but themselves.

But the clincher for this knucklehead was as soon as he got westbound on Lantana Road, he turned on his left hand turn blinker. He was intending to go south on Congress! Now if this twit had any brain he would have gone south on Old Congress turned right on Donnelly Drive and gotten a traffic light at Congress and Donnelly!
As my late father used to say. "It takes all sorts of people to make up the world and if you live long enough, you'll meet every single one of them."

I had my mother-in-law in the car with me at the time and I may or may not have said. "What a Knucklehead." No matter, an award was born.

Since then I've given out over 200 awards. Probably between 250-300, but I never kept count. I've tried to make the award a daily occurence, but health or work reasons have interfered sometimes. Occasionally there is a drought of knuckleheads but more often I have multiple candidates in a day.

I've given them to the big, President Bush, and the small, a man filming a friend having intercourse with a horse. If you're dumb and in the news, you're a candidate for a Knucklehead award.

My blog doesn't get much traffic. So I was surprised when people said they missed my awards last month while I had work obligations.

Work and health permitting, I hope to be back for a second anniversary. Also stay tuned for today's Knucklehead. It's appropriate for St. Patrick's day.

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