In my town, you will be on a large road, and there will be a side street to the left, then a side street to the right, then a side street to the left, then a side street to the right, etc.
A few decades ago, the city decided to take pairs of side streets, and turn them into single cross streets. So now there are a bunch of places where a street will suddenly zigzag and change names.
Do the fragments say something, or is the amusing aspect just the fact that there’s (effectively) so sign there? I tried zooming the image but I can’t make out anything legible.
I suppose this sign in Green Bank, WV is amusing.
It’s at the entrance to the National Radio Observatory. Spark plugs cause interference with the super-sensitive radio telescopes. For getting around the (large) facility, your options are diesel cars, or bicycles (there are a bunch of communal-use vehicles of both types about the place).
This sign was posted in the bathroom at a house I rented. I think the owner was not a native English speaker. I hypothesized that a “famine napkin” is a napkin you use when you’re really really hungry.
Yes I have to admit that it is nice to have one and be able to enjoy it. And it can be quite the conversation starter. A good ice breaker. I’m somewhat amazed at how reliable a car it is. I feel confident that I can hop in it in the morning and drive it across the country. And the car is 61 years old.
I have entertained thoughts of shipping it to Germany to tour there and do a road trip. That would be fun to do.
You’re lucky to have made it home! Dave Barry wrote a column about being pulled over one time when he was young and foolish, and the cop noticed a pile of municipal traffic cones in the back of his car. The cop asked him, somewhat rhetorically, if they were his. I don’t remember if poor Dave was actually arrested, but he definitely got a citation for theft.
Interesting…I’ve been there (or at least to the museum nearby? Pretty sure we were on the radio telescope grounds, I know we got a tour that showed some) and don’t remember my very ordinary car being restricted in any way from driving to their parking lot.