This is the time of the year when those little triangular notices appear by the roadside.
First the harvests then the autumn mushrooms then the little triangles.
They are often lying shyly on their backs, invisible on the grass verge.
Darkness of night is a good time not to see them, waiting to trash the strangers' diesel engines.
What am I talking about? Why, those little signs warning of floods.
I have been living in this town since 1976.
I drive the same roads every month. Every year the same flood notices appear in the same places.
Can you imagine putting the same buckets under the same holes in your roof every time it rains? No, you would fix it wouldn't you?

Besides that:-
They are not floods.
Do they understand that I wonder?

THEY ARE NOT FLOODS. THEY ARE PUDDLES!
BOSCASTLE WAS A FLOOD. THESE ARE PUDDLES!

Now look at the verge, is there a puddle? No
Look at the fields and woods. Puddles? Hardly ever.
So the men who built the roads built the puddles.

Fix the puddles dummies. You take enough money off us.
It's not as if they are harmless. Some of them are deadly dangerous.


There I do feel better.


Misty Rain

always nice to put up a rant, isn't it?

always nice to put up a rant, isn't it?

It's the huge audience reaction I like.

I guess I am addicted to standing ovations.

Misty Rain

for dumb signs, try the railways.

There are several signs between here and London shaped like a give way sign containing a picture of a leaf!

Why do the railways warn people about leaves?

A favourite sign of mine was the duck crossing sign in Victoria, B.C. I actually have a photo somewhere. One day I may even have a scanner allowing me show it to other people.

/spam, sorry.

Note* Moving this to the new Personal concerns forum.

Here are two useless signs that are really on the roads



WHY !!!

Dumb Signs?

I was sitting in an airplane next to the window. I looked out and saw the wing and the engine thingy...I'm not good with mechanics what can I say?

Anyways, on the door to the engine thingy there was a sign that said: do not open while engine is running; to see how to open, read instructions inside the door.

Part a of the sign? Duh. Who would open it while running?

Part b of the sign? If I need to open the door to get to the instructions that tell me how to open the door I either already know how to open it, or I'm screwed and can't open it at all.

The dyslexic painters- SOTP at a traffic light

there's a sign on the Manhattan span of the Triboro Bridge leading to Second Avenue that says "Thank You For Your Patience."

*shows mechanical knowledge*

Because a few years ago a train overshot a station after skidding on leave mulch on the track. The leaves had been crushed into a goo similar to black ice on the roads. Hence train drivers drive more carefully and this leads to delays to much media amusement

More roadside comedy

This Sign has Sharp Edges...



The hilarity.

Comedy signs and stupid people

Enjoy