Saturday, September 1, 2007

Pay Attention to Instructions

I made a little collage for you today. Some of the signs I see on my daily rounds. I think FFP snapped the irrigation warning. (I've yet to understand what I should do about this. It is on the grass at the water treatment plant near our club.) I've never quite understood why you have to tell left turners to yield, but you see that sign at traffic lights where there is both an arrow (for protected turns) and a green light where you can proceed with caution. Our stop lights are hung in the middle of the intersection most of the time. I get confused in countries where the light is on the corner and you can go too far and not see it. The plethora of signs at the bottom are on our street, trying to deter you from running over a median, warn trucks off the smaller road to the right and watch for water over the nearby bridge. (I have never seen water on the bridge by the way but the city recently put these up wherever they didn't have a water level warning system on the waterway.) Finally, we have an unusual sign that identifies one lane of our street as for bikes and parked cars, but no driving.

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6 comments:

  1. My goodness, it doesn't look like a collage but I'd not want to meet this driving home! How confusing. Nice photo tho and you sure fulfilled the brief.

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  2. what a great collection of perplexing signs

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  3. Can you imagine if all these were at one intersection? lol :-D Great collage.

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  4. I love the water on the bridge sign.

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  5. Oh my goodness...on the portal it almost looked as though they were all at the same place...now I understand.

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  6. You're collage is very well done! You tricked me!!! I thought for a moment that it was even more confusing than where I live!

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