The Buckets by Greg Cravens for October 03, 2021

DON’T DRIVE DISTARCTED. Tell me that this was intentional Greg. btw, love the coffee cup on the roof and the other debris flying off. Looks like Larry must have been in a hurry that morning. :D

I hate the digital signs on highways that you have to stare at in order to read the changing words. Both highway and advertising digital signs have to cause so many wrecks.

If you ever drove on German streets you might have noticed there are few billboards and distracting ads*. There are regulations and laws prohibiting that. Street signs have the same design in the whole country. Similar regulations are present in most European countries.

(*outside of 8 weeks before elections. When making those laws the political parties exempted themselves mostly.)

As a teenager in 1979, I worked as a lifeguard at Duke Power State Park (now Lake Norman State Park. RIP DPSP). The park director once told me that installing a new sign in the park required the removal of an old one, to prevent “Information Overload.” First time I ever heard that phrase.

I was stationed in Hawaii and got my orders for my new base. I was driving around doing things and couldn’t find my orders. I retraced my route and found them in a parking lot!! They had been run over but still readable, LOL! I had put them on the roof, of course. I got strange looks at the new duty station and had to explain and they understood. Everyone’s done it once.

My favorite road sign (from our 2018 trip): FOLLOW THE SIGNS! DO NOT FOLLOW YOUR GPS! Major construction zone and a SUV was stuck in some fresh concrete.

I hate cities, and driving in them only makes it worse. The end.

No commuting for 22 years now. A 2019 suv with 3500 on the odometer. And loving it!

I don’t drive in metro areas any more. Out here there is three stop signs in a 1 1/2 hour drive between here and nearest shopping destination. When I do go I appreciate my GPS brings up a detailed 3D map of complicated exits

THIMK!

My favorite highway sign was seen years ago at a construction site on the DC Beltway— “Prepare for Instant Aggravation.” The sign lasted less than a week.

Greag can draw cars and big rigs … well, almost. The red rig looks a little wonky…like me.

Isn’t the red car with the loud music going the wrong way?

As they might say in England.. Spot On. Distracting signs are everywhere and missing a speed zone sign will get you a ticket.

Distarcted? And this doesn’t mention all the displays and read outs in the car itself that can distract you

One of the things I love(d) about Colorado was the absence of billboards.

One of the things I hated about Florida was the electronic billboards with changing ads.

Good advice. Can’t control what’s around you but you can control what YOU do…..

Fortunately, I haven’t seen one of those LED billboard trucks in a while. Maybe they got banned. One can only hope.

i encountered this kind of traffic while traveling to Virginia Beach in June due to construction in the D.C. and various areas in Virginia. a trip that should have taken about 10 hours turned out to be 13 1/2 hrs

I think Greg might’ve been DISTARCTED.

TRUTH!

Their HOV hours are from 4:00-something to 7:00 AM. So, either the restriction lasts all night long, or it’s from 4-7 in the morning. Perhaps there’s a large, local factory with a shift change at 5 or 6 AM?

you’re taking your life in your hands if you drive distracted around these parts, where most drivers seem to think their car the only vehicle on the road. on our way home yesterday down by the port a geezer who was apparently distracted by the activity around the fishing boats turned directly in front of us, completely oblivious to our oncoming truck…

A major freeway here has two places where there are extremely bright digital signs with changing messages that have survived legal challenges despite being the clear causes of quite a few accidents and being outlawed in other states. My kid was hit by a distracted driver near one of those signs, with the investigation showing no impairment, no cell phone use, just that sign—they managed to flip their car and land on hers. Took her two years of physical therapy to recover.