MECHANICSBURG — Family cookouts continue to feature a local uncle who can map any election, scandal, or budget fight onto traffic through Urbana’s Monument Square — where US-36 and US-68 do their little dance — with the confidence of a man who has never merged correctly.
“You got your left-lane campers, your people who brake-check by the Man on the Monument, and your zipper-merge deniers coming off 68,” he said, as younger relatives studied the potato salad like it might open a portal.
When asked for a source, he tapped his temple and said, “Common sense,” which is legally not a source but is culturally undefeated in Champaign County.