On the way to and from work I’ve always noticed these nice big rocks in the grass along the road. Today as I drove in to work, I saw a man in work clothes holding a very large one up on end. As I drove to the other side I could see it was just a hollow plastic shell.
We live in Nevada, we don’t NEED fake rocks, we have plenty of the normal kind. I suppose they’re easier to manage, but still…would Alaskan Inuits use fake ice blocks to build their igloos?
Santa’s fake too. Sorry.
where would they get the material to do that?
Maybe the State Troopers hide spare car keys under them?
Spoilers please!
When I was small we lived in Memphis and there was some sort of store that we routinely passed but rarely went in to. It had a flat front with 50s style diamond pattern in aqua, white and some other pale color while the door was on the side of the building facing away from the front.
One day we parked on the side most opposite from the door so we could walk along in front of the diamonds. I stopped at the corner because something seemed Not Quite Right (Holy Stephen King!). I peered around the corner and found out that half of the front was FAKE! They had simply added a wall at the end of the building to make it look longer! AND it wasnÕt at 90 degree angle!
Somehow, this scared me more than most things ever did. I had weird freudian dreams about this store and wall. And it took me years to forget about it…until NOW, thankyouverymuch!
Some homeowners’ agreements require that unsightly things like satellite dishes and antennas must be hidden, so as not to spoil the “look”. To help people who want a Dish, some companies make fake rocks big enough to hide the dishes, but thin enough to allow reception of the signal.
Rocks can look good in a yard; to place them there you need heavy equipment. Rather than tearing up a yard people go for the facade treatment- fake rocks. You can move them to mow; you can hide things under them, and you can get them molded in any shape you desire.
If the Inuits had easy access to modern insulating materials, they probably would not live in snow structures which are vulnerable to the weather. Who lives in adobe in Nevada these days?
OMG! here I thought I was the only one that had seen anything like this. There’s a fireworks/party supply place on the way out of Little Rock that bills itself as ‘The South’s Largest Fireworks Store!’…but it’s just a facade! Even though the front is almost the size of a Wal-Mart Supercenter, the only set of doors opens into a store the size of a trailer (actually, i think that’s exactly what it is).
They even have trees planted hard up against it so that you can’t tell from the Interstate. Weird.
Hey, Terrorcotta, looks like you and I went in opposite directions; I lived in Roswell, Georgia (assuming that’s what your location means) as a kid, and now I’m in Memphis. Interesting.
Bakersfield, California is a very dry location. Instead of planting grass in the roadway medians, the merely painted the concrete surface green. This did not fool me even when I was five years old.
I don’t know about Nevada, but adobe is still pretty big in New Mexico.
Reality’s such a let-down sometimes.
The next thing you know, someone will tell me that the giant muskie in Hayward, WI isn’t real. Or that the volcano at the Mirage in Las Vegas is fake.
And then, we’ll hear that Pamela Anderson Lee’s breasts aren’t real!