I saw a sign yesterday which told me to "WATCH FOR ROCKS". I have been watching for rocks ever since and I don't know if I can stop yet. There was no "STOP WATCHING FOR ROCKS" sign. I have gotten a couple of private opinions that I can stop but I'm still not sure. Please help.
Just keep watching for rocks. And when you see one, keep looking for some more....
Hey, you asked for advice. You didn't say if you wanted good OR bad advice....
:whistle:
Off-topic, but today I heard a story on KXJZ about the Robbers Fire. The reporter said that "CalFire surveyors" were flying over the area to determine the size of the blaze. I imagined the following:
Dave K. and his assistant are in a plane over the fire.
Assistant: "That's a big fire."
Dave: "That's a really big fire. Okay, time to write my report."
Reporter: "CalFire surveyors report that the Robbers Fire is really big."
If it was me, I would leave my watch, take some rocks, and go home.
> I saw a sign yesterday which told me to "WATCH FOR ROCKS".
Dave, Dave, Dave. That is one of the spoof signs that you will see. Another is "ROAD CONTINUES" as is "PAVEMENT AHEAD". I mean, do you really need a sign to notice that 2-ton boulder that is sitting in your lane 600 ft. ahead?
What I really want to know, though, is why the road crew didn't just move the rocks out of the way instead of installing the sign. Seems a bit inefficient.
Jim...
RFLMAO
I have not been assigned to that fire.
The Helicopter has a mapping grade GPS which can store flight path. They usually fly around the perimeter to map it. There is a Fire Captain observer and a Pilot.
Kent you need to understand how government operates...
the sign fund is flush while the rock removal fund is in the red so we can only install a sign.
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Taking advantage while Wendell is away?
BTW, around here we have deer crossing signs. I saw a deer at one last week and waited an hour for it to cross. I finally got tired of waiting and drove on. That same deer was still lying there today. Geez, how long do you have to wait?
Paul in PA
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take it for what it is worth and chuckle
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I think that was an example of mid-Pennsylvanian dry wit.
Once you go over Do Not Pass, you can forget about the rocks.
As you approach Washington DC on the Dulles Toll Road, which feeds you on to I 66 just after you cross the Beltway, there used to be a sign that said ALL TRUCKS MUST USE NEXT TWO EXITS. Haven't been there for years, but there are days when recalling that sign meets my minimum daily textual requirements.
Cheers,
Henry
Have you never heard the story ......
about the little Indian boy named "Fallen Rock"?
I'll have to sit down and type it out some time.
:good: :good:
Dave
In Arkansas, we have the same problem. "Slow Children Ahead" So, you stop to see if there are any slow children, and they look like they are pretty fast, as they ride their big tire-skateboards, and bikes around a mini track, around the mailbox, over the back part of a flatbed truck, over a mud puddle, around the chicken coop, and back behind the mobile home, and through the mud puddle, and back again. In fact, one of them had some kind of hot motorcycle doing the track, and he was real fast!
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Dave
my Dad told me WATCH FOR FALLING ROCK was instructing us to look for Chief Falling Rock who is lost and we must help find him.
Dave
Well, in my story it's about the Indian boy who went to hunt a bear for his passage into manhood to become a brave and he got lost.
Locally TxDOT has constructed large EBMs that alternately display:
DRINK
DRIVE
GO TO JAIL
..with the requisite traffic info, and Amber Alerts. You have to kind of wonder if "x" amount of drivers won't construe the DUI message, like other traffic signage, as an imperative. o.O
Did you hear about the Calculus Professor who got arrested for Drunk Deriving?
Dave,
You poor aging surveyor. I share similar issues (as evidenced by my posts).
Several years back, after reading Nearly Normal’s diatribe about having his cranium assaulted by a renegade meteor, I too have been watchful for falling rocks. It can certainly make life difficult, especially when local law enforcement officials become concerned at one’s public behavior and offer free transportation to some sort of “facility” to get “checked out”.
Fortunately this “falling rock” symptom can be alleviated by consuming copious amounts of your favorite libation. It works for me. 😉
Get well soon!
Have a great weekend! B-)
