Small fry: things you see when traveling

wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
edited March 23, 2007 in The Big Picture
Took a quickie trip this week.

Saw this in the cab on the way to the airport.

The driver said the unfortunate incident happened in his cab a year ago. He's since bought a new van, and he really, really does not want a repeat performance! First time I've seen a sign like this (I made it bigger for easier reading.)

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Sid.
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited March 7, 2007
    OK, now we're in the airport for the return trip.

    And I have this question: how many times does the postman ring when he's making a delivery to an airport boarding ramp?

    Actually, I have another question: WTF is a mailbox doing on an airport boarding ramp? eek7.gif

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    Sid.
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  • dogwooddogwood Registered Users Posts: 2,572 Major grins
    edited March 7, 2007
    Okay, so your sign is even better than the one I saw recently:

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    "Winco Foods will refuse any and all bottle slips that have blood on them"

    Why is everyone so freaked out about bodily fluids? :D

    Incidentally, your cab photo reminds me of my days working a helitack (flying to wildland fires in a helicopter) crew. The helicopters were contracted out and the pilots used to tell us before EVERY flight, "If you throw up, do it down the front of your shirt or in your hard hat 'cause I don't want a mess in my helicopter!"

    Wonder if the cab would still charge if you managed to blow chips down the front of your shirt?
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited March 7, 2007
    dogwood wrote:

    Wonder if the cab would still charge if you managed to blow chips down the front of your shirt?
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    If I ever get him again, I'll ask!
    Sid.
    Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
    http://www.mcneel.com/users/jb/foghorn/ill_shut_up.au
  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2007
    A final piece of observational humor.

    Anyone care to guess what city I visited?

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    Sid.
    Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
    http://www.mcneel.com/users/jb/foghorn/ill_shut_up.au
  • cletuscletus Registered Users Posts: 1,930 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2007
    wxwax wrote:
    A final piece of observational humor.

    Anyone care to guess what city I visited?

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    :D
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  • cletuscletus Registered Users Posts: 1,930 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2007
    wxwax wrote:
    Actually, I have another question: WTF is a mailbox doing on an airport boarding ramp? eek7.gif

    For storing those toy Yoda ligtsaber wand things they direct aircraft with? ne_nau.gif
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  • Art ScottArt Scott Registered Users Posts: 8,959 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2007
    wxwax wrote:
    OK, now we're in the airport for the return trip.

    And I have this question: how many times does the postman ring when he's making a delivery to an airport boarding ramp?

    Actually, I have another question: WTF is a mailbox doing on an airport boarding ramp? eek7.gif

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    That is probably where the maintainence request go.....but I do not see a flag.......
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2007
    dogwood wrote:
    Okay, so your sign is even better than the one I saw recently:

    "Winco Foods will refuse any and all bottle slips that have blood on them"

    Why is everyone so freaked out about bodily fluids? :D

    Why is everyone freaked out about bodily fluids you ask....
    Well Hepatitis would be a biggy .... Skippy
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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2007
    Seriously waxy if a taxi driver even so much as looked at his phone here he would be looking for another job that same day. I had one do it with me in the car in newyork...i couldnt believe it.
  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2007
    cletus wrote:
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    :D
    Close! lol3.gif
    Sid.
    Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
    http://www.mcneel.com/users/jb/foghorn/ill_shut_up.au
  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2007
    Art Scott wrote:
    That is probably where the maintainence request go.....but I do not see a flag.......
    Hmmm, they don't have a computerized system for maintenance requests?

    Should I worry? lol3.gif
    Sid.
    Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
    http://www.mcneel.com/users/jb/foghorn/ill_shut_up.au
  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2007
    gus wrote:
    Seriously waxy if a taxi driver even so much as looked at his phone here he would be looking for another job that same day. I had one do it with me in the car in newyork...i couldnt believe it.

    Hell, everyone here does it. Incredibly dangerous, but very few places have passed laws against it. As riders, we both know how scary it is to be near a vehicle with a cell phone gabber, they're in a different world, oblivious.
    Sid.
    Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
    http://www.mcneel.com/users/jb/foghorn/ill_shut_up.au
  • patch29patch29 Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,928 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2007
    wxwax wrote:
    Anyone care to guess what city I visited?


    You finally saw Rock City? blbl.gif
  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2007
    patch29 wrote:
    You finally saw Rock City? blbl.gif
    lol3.gif

    No!

    But close again!
    Sid.
    Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
    http://www.mcneel.com/users/jb/foghorn/ill_shut_up.au
  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,708 moderator
    edited March 8, 2007
    gus wrote:
    Seriously waxy if a taxi driver even so much as looked at his phone here he would be looking for another job that same day. I had one do it with me in the car in newyork...i couldnt believe it.


    Gus, I have sat at intersections at 8AM watching folks hurrying to work, and every third driver had a cell phone to their ear as they drove through the intersection in high density early morning traffic. It has become true insanity.

    Ride safe out there, Gus!
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  • BlueHoseJacketBlueHoseJacket Registered Users Posts: 509 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2007
    I'll make a bold guess..BOULDER, CO. ..I'm heading there next week.
  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2007
    BlueHoseJacket wrote:
    I'll make a bold guess..BOULDER, CO. ..I'm heading there next week.

    The Winnah!

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    The "boulder" is at the end of the pedestrian mall downtown.
    Sid.
    Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
    http://www.mcneel.com/users/jb/foghorn/ill_shut_up.au
  • LynieLynie Registered Users Posts: 53 Big grins
    edited March 8, 2007
    wxwax wrote:
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    No!

    But close again!

    Gee, would it be Boulder? headscratch.gifLaughing.gif
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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2007
    pathfinder wrote:
    Gus, I have sat at intersections at 8AM watching folks hurrying to work, and every third driver had a cell phone to their ear as they drove through the intersection in high density early morning traffic. It has become true insanity.

    Ride safe out there, Gus!
    Heavy fines here & they often use plain clothes coppers mixing with the public to nail people. No way will i do it....about $300 instant fine & a few points of your lic i think.

    We were followed & stopped one day because my wife had her head leaning on her hand as she drove along once. It did look like she was on a phone.
  • TylerWTylerW Registered Users Posts: 428 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2007
    Oh man, where do I start?

    Hair Salon in Stockholm:
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    On the door to the restrooms in my company's London office:
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    I swear this is a real intersection, near the northern coast of Washington State.
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    This was in chicago. Apparently they use Segways to enforce the law in the downtown area. I wanted to ask him what he does with criminals that know how to use stairs.
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    And back to Stockholm, where I found an entire bar, made of Ice:
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  • Art ScottArt Scott Registered Users Posts: 8,959 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2007
    Nicely done....gave a great chuckle.
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  • S_LeeperS_Leeper Registered Users Posts: 41 Big grins
    edited March 10, 2007
    You ought to send the Badger's Arse into Jay Leno... for his "headlines"...
    I loved it.

    re: drivers using cell phones
    The other day on way home in standard north Jersey traffic three lanes crawling slowly literally everyone around me at one point (approx 7) were on there phone. Thankfully we were only going 2 mph.

    also remember day NY state law prohibiting driving while calling went into effect... some poor guy pulled over to the sholder make a call & got killed when he was rear ended...
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2007
    No sign, just a useless travel pic.

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    Sid.
    Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
    http://www.mcneel.com/users/jb/foghorn/ill_shut_up.au
  • cletuscletus Registered Users Posts: 1,930 Major grins
    edited March 23, 2007
    An oldie...

    Ran across this on my smugmug site and it reminded me of this thread 3604190-L.jpg:D
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  • cletuscletus Registered Users Posts: 1,930 Major grins
    edited March 23, 2007
    So Sid,

    Does NOAA still have a big facility there in Boulder and is that why you were there???
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  • gmonkehgmonkeh Registered Users Posts: 312 Major grins
    edited March 23, 2007
    Took this shot a while back at the Pike Place Market. It's either a dyslexic motorcycle or the moped has delusions of grandeur. :D

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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited March 23, 2007
    cletus wrote:
    So Sid,

    Does NOAA still have a big facility there in Boulder and is that why you were there???
    nod.gif
    There are two labs that do climate/environmental/atmospheric science.

    One is NOAA's (a nice facility.) And the other is NCAR/UCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research and University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.)
    Sid.
    Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
    http://www.mcneel.com/users/jb/foghorn/ill_shut_up.au
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