Navigating through Norwalk these days is trying when you’re sipping a hot beverage, chatting on the cell phone, texting, responding to email and changing CDs on most days, but these days it is near impossible. I’ve been relegated to listening to the same CD over and over. No, I really don’t do all those things while driving, simultaneously, I kid. But I’m not kidding when I observe that there are some road construction areas that are so poorly marked that they constitute an obstacle course that even Brian Vicker’s Red Bull Toyota would have trouble navigating.

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Next Tuesday the Norwalk Federation of Teachers is holding a leadership vote, afters school at West Rocks Middle School. Naturally, because it involves West Rocks, we have a controversy a brewing. And the controversy is, teacher mailboxes. Not the kind on our computers, but the kind that sits in the mail room and allows teachers to pass notes, er communications to each other. The mail room, to those of us paying close attention to the Breakfast Club, is usually located adjacent to the teachers lounge, where in the good old days teachers lounged and smoked cigarettes.

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Musical guest Elvis Costello, take inspiration:

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