Take it away and replace it with one of those yellow tent-signs that reads: “PISO MOJADO.”
You know, I have a theory that things like school and playground zones (and people putting signs in the middle of the street that say “Children At Play!”) are actually endangering children. I see it all the time - kids cross the street in a crosswalk and don’t even bother to look at the traffic - they just assume they’re all going to stop for His and Her Majesty. I’ve posted a couple of times now about how my husband and I almost got mowed down in a crosswalk last weekend; if we hadn’t been looking right at the vehicle, he would have hit us. Kids need to not only respect vehicular traffic, they need a healthy fear of it, not learn to disregard it because pedestrians (especially young ones) are king.
Hmm, good idea! There must be someplace around here that repairs vacuums. Thanks! 
Eh, having to clean house tends to make me nutty anyway…
Pitting me because I’m feeling tempted to look for another job simply because of boredom. Someone slap some sense into me, please :smack:
The people in my neighbourhood, including myself, put them at the foot of the driveway when our kids are playing so asshole drivers don’t zoom into the driveway without looking. I’ve never seen them in the street as an indicator.
Stupid subsitute bus driver again this morning.
My son wasn’t on the sidewalk so she drove away.
I’ve told them, there is no sidewalk in front of my house. There is no sidewalk across the street (where he isn’t supposed to catch a bus anyway he is supposed to get on and off the bus from our side of the street). I was waiting with him on our side of the street so he is not playing in the street or perched precariously on top of a snowbank.
Bus drove away. I had to drive him to school. I still have to finish packing for my business trip. GAAAAAH not happy… (posting this while waiting to put clothes in dryer)
This situation is doubleplusfun when you’re a latchkey kid with no one at home to drive you to school. Happened to me more than once.
Hear, hear!
You may not have been referring to me directly but I do this sometimes. Sorry, but I post like I talk, that’s why my posts make no sense, have run on sentences, poor grammar, uhs and ums, and too, many, commas. I just thought it made me look like an idiot not a douchenozzle. I don’t mind looking like an idiot but I abhor being a douchenozzle, I will endeavor not to start posts with Uh and um from now on. Thank you for enlightening me on this.
Well, Idunno. As far as I’m aware most of the women I know will willingly accept insertion of a douchenozzle into the Holy of Holies, at least in certain circumstances…
I don’t swing that way.
They should add something to spell check that will underline certain words and phrases and says “this makes you look like a douchenozzle”. It would save us some embarrassment.
That’s it! They’re more expensive than I thought (or maybe I’m just not familiar with the pricing of “signals”).
I wasn’t referring to you, no.
There have been other threads here about it… people tend to take it as a snotty “um… I know you’re too stupid to understand why what you just said was stupid, but…”.
Good. I don’t think I use it that way but nevertheless I will try not to use it at all.
God, someone please just shoot me. I’ve been on hold with Cox for ten minutes now with the most annoying classical guitar hold music, it’s the same few bars over and over and over, my speaker phone is turned down as low as it will go.
All so I can tell them for the third fucking time that our caller ID info is not showing up correctly when we dial out. All of our lines show Anonymous Private Caller when we, you know, would like our fucking business name to show up.
Fuck. Why am I wasting my time with this? All representatives are still assisting other callers plink-plinky-plinkety-plinky-plinky-plinky-plinketah-plinketah-plink-plink
*This is a repetitious song
This is a repetitious song
This is a repetitious song
We just keep repeating
This is a repetitious song
This is a repetitious song
This is a repetitious song
We just keep repeating
This is a repetitious song
This is a repetitious song
This is a repetitious song
We just keep repeating*
Twenty-four minutes and now I’m talking to a ridiculously chipper Palin-esque “I’ll git that fixed for ya, you betcha!” who assures me that their tech support will fix it.
You betcha! Thanks for calling Cox, you have a grrrrrrrrrreat day!
Death! Death to all Chimeras, you betcha, okay!
There’s a company I order from that has the most obnoxious hold muzak. It’s about 15 notes that repeat over and over. I think it’s supposed to sound like Kenny G if he were in hell being slowly roasted alive while demons baste him with lemon juice and pancake syrup. If I have to hold for a long time I can feel my brains turn to mush and I sometimes go into a coma and forget why I called. This really can’t be good for business.
The Other Shoe and I just saw one of these today at lunchtime. Mr. Horseshoe was all “What the FUCK is that thing?” and all I could stammer out was, “Ohhh, there’s a thread where Dopers are posting and bitching about those things right now!”
(He’s so sick of hearing my say that, I’m sure. So many threads here are ever so timely and informative, though! Plus some of them come with funny kitteh stories!)