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JUST A WHEEL
I’m just a wheel. A steering wheel. And you’re my captain. Behind me you’re the lord and master of a miracle. You can make me take the kids to school. You can turn me down the sunny road toward town. With me you can guide your goods to the market place . . . you can rush the sick to be healed . . . you can go in minutes to places hours away. You can do magic.
Yet, in the blink of an eye, in the tick of your watch, I can turn deadly killer. I can snuff out the life of a kid still full of life— maybe your kid. I can twist a smile into tears. I can wreck and cripple and destroy. I can deal out death like the plague. And I’m no respecter of persons. A child, a grandmother, even you, my friend ... it’s all the same to me.
I’m sensitive. I respond instantly to the hands you give me. Give rtie calm hands, steady hands, care. ful hands . . . and I’m youf friend. But give me unsteady hands, fuzzy-minded hands, reckless hands . . . then I’m your enemy, a menace to the life, the happiness, the future of every person, every youngster riding, walking, playing.
I was made for pleasure and usefulness. Keep me that way. I’m in your hands. I’m just a steering wheel. And you’re my captain. Behind me you’re the lord and master of a miracle ... or a tragedy. It’s up to you.
•—-Published in the interest of highway safety by The American 011 Company
Trial Justice Cases
The Commonwealth vs. Milton Russell Jordan; charged with driving drunk; fined $100 and cost. Driving license revoked for 12 months; sentenced to 30 days in jail; sentence suspended on good behavior for 12 months.
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