Most excellent BS gathering (excellent is not a grand enough word) in Brighton.
Some long hours home, droning along, watching road signs and stuff, and generally daydreaming during open stretches of road....thinking about this trip and lots of other ones at the same time...
*** In lots of mountainous states, the signs say "Watch for Falling Rock," or "Falling Rock Zone," or what have ya. I truly believe you could stand there beside one of those signs for 24 hours a day for a very long time watching for "falling rock" and would be very lucky to ever see it happen. I mean rocks only fall for a few seconds and then they are scattered on the road, motionless, for somebody to run over and into. "Falling" is not the right thing to watch for.
Kentucky, at least, has a better sign - "Fallen Rock." Yep, somebody thought about that. That says it. Watch for the ones that have already fallen.
*** And then there's the forever issue of not driving all day in the far left lane. Lots and lots of states, say, "Slower Traffic Stay Right."
I mean, how can I stay right if I've never been right in my life?
And that opens up the perpetual argument of, "I'm going the speed limit in the left lane, and that's the law." Never mind folks are blowing your doors on the right, cussing the whole time as they weave and bob for position. Endless ongoing argument, "Slower Traffic Stay Right."
Kentucky has a sign for that too. I mean, the Kentucky sign writers have it all just too perfectly nailed, just with the words. They say, "Keep Right Except To Pass." There it is, that's the issue. That perfectly says it.
*** And in Michigan, the signs in construction areas say, "Kill/Injure a Worker? $7500 / 15 Years.
I can dig the 15 years for driving like a fool through a construction zone, but who decided a worker, killed or injured is worth $7500? Who came up with that number?
*** In all of the other states I've driven in, the crazy-fastest drivers I've ever seen go by were from Ohio. But when they're driving in Ohio, hardly any of them exceed the speed limit at all. Why IS that?
*** Why does steam come out of the manhole covers in downtown Detroit? Is that the city built just a few feet over hell, or WHAT? Why is that?
Some long hours home, droning along, watching road signs and stuff, and generally daydreaming during open stretches of road....thinking about this trip and lots of other ones at the same time...
*** In lots of mountainous states, the signs say "Watch for Falling Rock," or "Falling Rock Zone," or what have ya. I truly believe you could stand there beside one of those signs for 24 hours a day for a very long time watching for "falling rock" and would be very lucky to ever see it happen. I mean rocks only fall for a few seconds and then they are scattered on the road, motionless, for somebody to run over and into. "Falling" is not the right thing to watch for.
Kentucky, at least, has a better sign - "Fallen Rock." Yep, somebody thought about that. That says it. Watch for the ones that have already fallen.
*** And then there's the forever issue of not driving all day in the far left lane. Lots and lots of states, say, "Slower Traffic Stay Right."
I mean, how can I stay right if I've never been right in my life?
And that opens up the perpetual argument of, "I'm going the speed limit in the left lane, and that's the law." Never mind folks are blowing your doors on the right, cussing the whole time as they weave and bob for position. Endless ongoing argument, "Slower Traffic Stay Right."
Kentucky has a sign for that too. I mean, the Kentucky sign writers have it all just too perfectly nailed, just with the words. They say, "Keep Right Except To Pass." There it is, that's the issue. That perfectly says it.
*** And in Michigan, the signs in construction areas say, "Kill/Injure a Worker? $7500 / 15 Years.
I can dig the 15 years for driving like a fool through a construction zone, but who decided a worker, killed or injured is worth $7500? Who came up with that number?
*** In all of the other states I've driven in, the crazy-fastest drivers I've ever seen go by were from Ohio. But when they're driving in Ohio, hardly any of them exceed the speed limit at all. Why IS that?
*** Why does steam come out of the manhole covers in downtown Detroit? Is that the city built just a few feet over hell, or WHAT? Why is that?
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