An 18 wheeler destroyed this historic corner in the Grove. Photo by Terry Lepore. June 29, 2017. © Special to Blogfinger.

The truck driver got out of his cab and pulled the sign out of the ground.

Terry, a resident of OG contacted us to report that an 18 wheeler flatbed truck loaded with mulch from PA got lost in OG looking for the Neptune Home Depot.

“He got tangled with a turn, ripped a street sign out of the ground*, and then deliberately drove up and over my 140 year old hand chiseled blue-stone sidewalk. The whole corner was smashed to smithereens.”

The police caught up with the driver and issued summonses.

Terry says, “Yes, big trucks are a necessary evil, but they make me very nervous squeezing down our narrow streets and flying down Main Avenue and Broadway.”

Terry decided to keep her sense of humor.  She says that “street sign on my sidewalk” sounds like the name of a song—ie “Sunshine on my Shoulder” by John Denver.  Here are her new lyrics:

“Street Sign on my Side Walk”

Lyrics by Terry Lepore, Music by John Denver.   Litigation by Denver’s lawyer.

(to be sung to the John Denver tune “Sunshine on my Shoulders”)

Street sign on my sidewalk looks so funny,  
Street sign on my sidewalk makes me sad,
Street sign on my sidewalk looks so crazy,
Street sign on my sidewalk makes me mad.

JAN HOWARD’S version   (This song is almost always performed by a male voice; this is something else; dedicated to our lyricist Terry Lepore of Gingerbreads)