Dear Richard, old floon - I must protest in the strongest possible terms that I am NOT making fun of the now world-famous [thanks to me] PO Traffic Light, or POTL, as I prefer to call it.
I have great affection for the device - indeed, as somebody who also functions in a similarly on/off fashion - I feel that we are fellow creatures of the GFO in our own little ways.
Our similarities are, in fact, astounding, when you come to think on it -
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we both hang around all day, doing mostly nothing. Just when you think you caught us working - out of the corner of your eye - we are both apparently comatose, or vice-versa.
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yet we are both comprehensively ignored, even when notice IS, on those rare occasions, taken of us,
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we are the subject of some derision and ridicule from certain quarters.
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we were both put in place without a by-your-leave by an uncaring Higher Authority at some expense, and
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having been put there, are both found to be totally useless and a pure waste of tax-payers’ money.
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we both depend on a Higher Power to cause us to function in whatever capacity that might be - the POTL by the county electricity supply, and me by the Grace of the Almighty GFO. It is inevitable that one day both our switches will be thrown for the last time, and we both go dark forever. However, until that takes place,
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we both depend on others for support - the POTL by guy wires, and me by a system of funding that beggars belief [see 5. above].
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…and yet in the end, for some unaccountable reason, we are still felt to be a necessary part of the Great Landscape.
tac & the family ig
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