sign of the times
I see this sign whenever I drive down Fell street. I find it about as helpful as my paranoid Jewish Italian mother who always asks me if anything I’m planning on doing is safe or a good idea. Beware of seesaw!? When did the seesaw become such a threat to drivers everywhere? My mother would tell me not to worry why but just be very careful on that stretch of road and maybe avoid it altogether.
I don’t think seesaws are even around any more.
May 29th, 2005 at 4:41 pm
You misunderstood this sign. Those children are actually balancing on a can of gasoline. Also, they ran out of space on the sign but there is a man standing off to the side holding a match.
You said you wanted me to comment on your blog, and I can’t get to it during the week so that explains the rash of entries.
May 30th, 2005 at 10:09 pm
Please don’t tell my mother that’s what this sign really means. She’s already so phobic she won’t fly or get into elevators.
June 2nd, 2005 at 12:35 pm
I think it means children playing in the area. And yes, they still have seesaws. I have to wonder, did you really see this sign at a park, or perhaps just surfing the internet? If just from surfing, it would make sense as to how you would not know.
I imagine someday, these blogs all may not have much to talk about. Like this one, for example. Why? Because nobody goes outside and experiences the physical world very often anymore. And, without those experiences, i imagine we will just try to find wierd pics on the internet and try to figure out what they mean. Did I say that out loud? No. I typed it.
June 2nd, 2005 at 1:28 pm
Eric, I really do see that sign when driving down Fell street in San Francisco. And to be honest, I know what the sign means. This is just my sarcastic way of saying it’s a poorly designed sign. You didn’t design it, did you? Typically this kind of sign warns about things that may be in the road. How is a seesaw with two children going to get into the middle of the road!? It doesn’t make any sense. The sign that has a child playing with a ball is much more logical. I can see that there may be a child running out into the street chasing their ball. I really don’t have any reason to worry about children peacefully playing on a seesaw. (Seesaws are extremely rare here in California, by the way. Too dangerous for our litigiously minded citizenry.)
But I can’t imagine you want to read about my suggestions for what a street sign should be. Otherwise my blog becomes good bed-time reading. Maybe it already is. Oh well. C’est la vie.
June 3rd, 2005 at 1:35 pm
Sorry Eli. DIdn’t mean to hit it so hard the first go around. I guess I just was disspointed that I spent those few minutes reading this blog, and finding out it doesnt really have much of a point. C’est la vie, you are correct. Hasta la vista.
June 3rd, 2005 at 5:39 pm
I’m not sure if the “point” of this blog is to have a specific point; Eli just cracks me up and I can always use a good laugh. However, I would not like to see Eli’s suggested sign of children playing with their balls. (sorry, bad pun…)
June 6th, 2005 at 10:40 am
I thought the post was funny, Eli.
June 6th, 2005 at 10:52 pm
Thanks Courtney. As long as I’m a hit with hot mechanical engineers, then what else matters? And thank you too, Jon. You may not be a hot mechanical engineer, but I’m glad you like my stuff as well.
June 11th, 2005 at 8:09 am
Hey I thought it was funny too! But then again, I’m a not-so-hot *chemical* engineer…
June 11th, 2005 at 8:00 pm
Perhaps the teeter-totter graphic was designed by the same person who designed the sign that says:
SLOW
CHILDREN
(Inserted between these two words is a pic of a boy playing & running into the street.)
Obviously, not the most P.C. sign in the world, as it has a (pretty funny) double meaning.
June 12th, 2005 at 6:29 pm
Toto, something tells me you do alright with the ladies. Unless you have a siamese twin. Or maybe you’ve done some kind of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde experiment on yourself.