Signs

"joe said...
Would you please post something about all the different signs you see while driving down the road? Not just traffic signs...but storefront signs as well. I would find that utterly fascinating."

Signs, ehh? Well I do do requests.........I will have to think on this, while I drive to work this morning...

People in general rely greatly on signs. Be it signs to tell us when to stop, how fast to go, to whether or not we can smoke in any given area.

In order to get to one's destination, one has to know the building number and the street name to which they are going. If not all is lost. Or, if one is going to a business, one must know the name which should appear on the sign above the door. Like, TARGET, or SEARS, or insert the name of any destination you can think of.

Some signs can be completely ridiculous, like the signs on the back of my stove that say, DO NOT STAND ON OVEN DOOR AS STOVE WILL FALL OVER AND CRUSH YOU! I mean, someone had to have done that for that sign to be there, so there are warning signs as well as signs to help people to get to locations. I personally like the sign watch for ice on bridge, I assure you that every time I go over where this sign is, I watch for ice, spring, summer, fall, or winter, The sign says watch for ice, so I watch for it. Another sign I enjoy is watch out for falling rocks. Enough said on that one I think.

There are helpful signs in places like parks and museums. I was at a park once and didn't know what I was looking at until I saw the sign that told me it was a waterfall, how beautiful it was and overjoyed I was to know I was looking at a waterfall. Other signs in such places will tell us of thing that certain items in a museum for instance were used in the past, their age, where they used, sometimes even exactly who they belonged to. In the case of a park, some signs will tell us of certain events that may have or did occur on the site, such as Gettysburgh. I went there once, it's hard to believe that such a tranquil feild once held such a bloody horrifying battle long ago. Really not so long ago though, was it? I wouldn't have known it was Gettysburg without the sign.

In conclusion, signs are very important, they help us get to where we are going, warn us when we are in danger and alert us to when there is something pretty to see. Think about that next time you read a sign or you are annoyed the sign was there, just how important that signs are to us, without them, we wouldn't know where were going or where we had been.