Sunday, July 20, 2008

Not just any collision...

But an angry one. Those probably do more damage. And bonus points for the street on which this collision center is located: Concord. Har har har.

Monday, June 30, 2008

Should Be Obvious.....

You know they put this sign here because someone was challenging the locomotive....

"Just park the car here honey, I don't think this space is used for anything right now...."


I think this is one of the most frightening of the three signs - once you realize that there is no one in the locomotive - so if you are stupid enough to park on the tracks, or assume the train will give you the right of way, there isn't anyone in the train that will take pity on your stupidity and try to brake....

When a post-it note just won't do...


"I told you to use the other door.
What, you didn't see the little note?
I'll have to do something about folks not seeing the note about using the other door...."

Thursday, June 26, 2008

The Hardy-Weinburg of dump sites

No dumping. That seems fair. We don't want your old washing machines and broken chairs. But what does that other sign to the right say? Let's go in for the close-up:


That's right. No taking the junk that's already here. Everything must stay in equilibrium.








Saturday, June 7, 2008

So Many Things to Hug...

I'm glad this establishment also put by their sign that they are a hamburger joint. I'm confused about several things though. Are the buns doing the hugging? If so, that makes sense. But what if the buns themselves are being hugged -- if so, by what? By a hand? Which means that this place can't really exit without hands to hug the buns.

Or, going in another direction, perhaps "bun" is slang for "bunny, and perhaps this is actually a lagomorph house of ill-repute. But, if it were just hugging, that would scale it back to a house of inappropriate repute.

Because it's inappropriate to hug a rabbit. At least that's what the doctor told me the last time I was treated for tularemia...

Thanks to Pidge for sending this in!

Bear Crossing...


Note how Momma Bear is nudging the cub across the road.

Pay attention to the road...


Road sign just out of Puerto Penasco, Mexico. I wonder how many accidents were caused as people tried to read it....

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Fun....?


The entertaining thing about this sign, is that the word "fun" appears nowhere in the word "flying". I can understand if they put the "yin" back in flying. Or "lying" back in in flying - (although I haven't heard of pilots being notorious liars...).

But skates are okay...


I'm in a strange land where most establishments have this request on their doors....

A Good Deterrent...


I'm not sure I would risk parking my car here while on vacation...I'm assuming "Wrecker" is their last name, but it does give one pause...

**Update!! Russel T. included the following link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrecker
which give a bunch of other possibilites what "Wrecker" could mean. Personally, I like the idea of my car being towed by Transformer Autobots....

Would you trust this mechanic?







I'm guessing that repair of an aircraft takes some skill. Attention to detail. Love of the machine and the play of the inner mechanical workings. So - why park this junker out front? Surely not to draw in customers.....
I included a closeup of the car. Note the precision paint job, as well as the decorative tow-strap holding the the back of the car together. And that shiny thing in the window? I believe it's the bumper....