Shouldn’t Have To Steer Clear Of Boats On The Road

To the Editor:

This is for all the recreational and serious boaters out there in town. As I was traveling along Hanover Road this evening (September 2), someone was heading the other direction after having left either the Pond Brook boat launch or Hanover Road boat launch. This would be an unworthy reason to send a letter to the editor if it weren’t for this fact: they were driving a big SUV towing an even larger motorboat in the middle of the road.

I guess the driver didn’t realize that Hanover is, strangely enough, a two-lane road. And that those two lanes go two opposite directions.

I know, that’s probably not too big of a detail, but when I have to slam on my brakes to avoid driving into a boat trailer that’s in my lane, I think someone needs to say something.

So if you’re out there, driver who almost hit me with his boat that could pay for maybe six years-worth of my college tuition, try to remember that some of us don’t appreciate your driving “skills.”

Matt Cole

9 Scenic View Drive, Newtown                             September 2, 2007