Driving across country, you see a lot of forgettable signs, but some stand out:
“Dance like no one is watching. Drive like everyone is!”
Some try to cajole us to better driving habits by appealing to our vanity: “Road Rage Causes Wrinkles.”
Or “Motorcycle Helmets Make You Look Smarter.” Not sure that one would be effective with most of the Harley crowd I see.
You see so many “Buckle Up for Safety” signs you ignore them, but how can you ignore: “Buckle Up Buttercup.”
Some signs are popular with families playing the ABC game:
Parking meters do not often cause one to smile, but someone carefully wrote this post-it and placed it on a Portland meter:
Isn’t that just so Portlandia?
Speaking of parking, too many signs can be a money-maker for cities. I was once towed from a parking space in San Francisco that had so many signs plastered up and down and all around the meter post, I apparently failed to see the one that actually applied on a Monday between 11am and noon, when the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars. The barber in the shop in front of which I had parked smiled and told me it happens all the time.
There are signs advertising cannabis all over the West Coast, but the sign I never thought I would read was the large one on a field adjacent to I-5 near Eugene OR: “Pot Farm For Sale,” complete with phone number.
Almost as unlikely as: “Re-Elect President Trump.”
The Just Say No crowd still has its adherents in Maine:
Gratuitous “butt” reference for the grandkids:
Finally, I wonder if the Oregon DOT won the humor award at the National Road Sign Makers Conference when they decided to juxtapose these two Oregon town names on the same sign:
You keep us smiling.
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so why am I laughing? You got me, buddy!
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Speaking of signage, did you pass the one on I-5 that says “Weed ➡️ College ⬅️ ? We passed one of those calTrans signs in Princeton that said “nudist colony ahead, slow down.” It was very effective. And no, there was no nudist colony ahead. Cheers, Cyn
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