Friends,
The roads to my house are really highways. Not huge highways, but the speed limits are 55 MPH until you reach the center of my teensy and astoundingly quaint village.
But I’ve heard that because these highways have curves, drivers become “terrified.” Here in our Secret Alpine Laboratory, we have studied this phenomenon at great length and have discovered that each of our subjects, when they reach a condition we’re calling hodophobia gravitas, that they all slow down to precisely 42 MPH. Why?
Here’s one possible answer:
42 (forty-two) is the natural number immediately following 41 and directly preceding 43. The number has received considerable attention in popular culture as a result of its central appearance in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy as the “Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything”. The Question to the answer is: “How many roads must a man walk down.”
Or fall off of.
– bob