Random Wanderings and Wonderings
I’ve always wanted to put a message for drivers on the back of my t-shirt or bike, but have never been able to come up with anything suitably brief. This one, seen in Nathan Phillips Square after Monday’s group commute, gets high marks for visibility and clarity. But I think it’s a bit long for drivers to read at speed, and probably invites much disagreement. So far, my own leading candidates are, “Pretend I’m in a car,” and “No, you get off my road.” The search continues.
From the “Who knew it was such a rampant problem?” department comes the warning painted inside this dump truck, which probably makes more sense when the dumper is horizontal and the truck is in a quiet parking lot at the end of a long day of work.
I’m guessing that whoever got tired of cleaning the urine-soaked asphalt out of the corner of the truck didn’t realize that his painted message would be visible to the entire world when the truck body was tilted up. Chalk up another curiosity surrounding truckers and urine.
A version of this article originally appeared on Torontoist.
I’ve always been fascinated by the little signs, slogans, or scrawlings that people use to protest some indignity, whether real or perceived. I found this one today stuck on a “no trespassing” sign at the Hearn generating station in the port lands. No, I don’t know what it means, or why the writer chose this particular location to make this particular political statement.