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I was just curious! I constantly find myself looking at signs when I should be looking at the road. So far I have been lucky but I am sure my days are numbered!
Anyone have a similar feeling?
-------------------- Amy Brown Life Skills 101 Private Address Posts: 3502 | From: Lake Helen, FL, USA | Registered: Feb 2001
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No, but on sign watching days I do wear my trusty crash helmet. Bronzeo
-------------------- "Don't change horses in midstream, unless you spot one with longer legs" bronzeo oti Jack Davis 1410 Main St Joplin, MO 64801 www.imagemakerart.com jack@imagemakerart.com Posts: 1549 | From: Joplin, MO | Registered: Mar 2000
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On a recent trip to Brisbane with a load of furniture to help set up my sons in their rental house for college, ...........WUPPO!
right up the rear end of my SONS car!
OOOOOH that smarts.
RobC
-------------------- Rob Clark Rob Clark Design 11 Lassig st Moore Park Queensland Australia 0741598092 Posts: 421 | From: Australia | Registered: May 1999
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The Mrs. makes sure that I keep my truck between the ditches but sometimes I just have to turn around, go back and look; safer that way. But, the wife is beginning to develop into a "sign connosieur" as well. There goes my buffer of safety.
-------------------- Wayne Webb Webb Signworks Chipley, FL 850.638.9329 wayne@webbsignworks.com Posts: 7405 | From: Chipley,Florida,United States | Registered: Oct 1999
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Not with signs, but I remember being on our m/c with the lady of my life some years ago, and seeing a live version of The Birth of Venus way too close to the road for safetys sake.
I am pretty sure the BB denizens of the male persuasion have similar stories --- but don't care-- spell that as "d-a-r-e"-- to share.
-------------------- Bill Preston Fly Creek, N.Y. USA Posts: 943 | From: Fly Creek, N.Y. USA | Registered: Jan 2000
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Yes I'm afraid I have. Many years ago I was looking up at a recently painted sign and I veered off the street. luckily for me it was an old bomb that I hit. I left a note but was never contacted, but it cost me quite a bit for my own car. Funny you never learn though, I have since had near misses.
-------------------- Drane Signs Sunshine Coast Nambour, Qld. dranesigns@bigpond.com Downunder "To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer" Posts: 965 | From: Nambour, Qld. Australia | Registered: Nov 1998
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I guess I've been lucky because I do my share of gawking while I drive. I'm reminded of my dad, a farmer who weaved down many a country road checking out wheatfields. I often rode in terror as a child and he never drank.
-------------------- Happy Signing...... Marty
M.F. (Marty) Happy Signmaker Since 1974 Happy Ad Sign & Design Regina SK, Canada S4N 5K4 306-789-9567 happyad@sasktel.net www.happyad.ca
Get Happy & Get Noticed! Posts: 773 | From: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada | Registered: Jan 1999
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Marty, I know that feeling. My dad has become a gawker and somehow, his hands have become attached to his eyes, whichever way his head turns, so does the wheel. It's got to the point that if I go somewhere with him, I grab the keys and get in the truck before he's out of the house.
I haven't hit anything yet while looking at signs, but I've interrupted a few sentences with "nice sign!" I've also been known to explain in detail that when we come back past this place, you need to drive veeery slow so I can gawk at that sign.
-------------------- Chris Welker Wildfire Signs Indiana, Pa Posts: 4254 | From: Indiana, PA | Registered: Mar 2001
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