Friday, May 23, 2008

What would you do with 100 traffic cones?

You've seen them everywhere. Bright orange traffic cones placed in areas that someone doesn't want you to drive or walk in. Do you ever wish you had your own set of traffic cones?

You could put them in a parking space you particularly like as you left it, so you could get the same spot the next day.

You could put them in your neighbor's parking space because they do such a bad job at parking, you just want to be rid of them for a while.

You could put them in the open field of a local park in a strange circular pattern and claim it was crop-circle aliens annoyed that there were no crops to play with, so they collected traffic cones and brought them to the field.

Or if you were really adventurous, you could block off one lane of the Burrard Street Bridge in Vancouver, all the way from the South end to just over the hump in the middle of the bridge. And then you could have lunch, on the road, on the hump of the bridge where the view is the best. I swear this is what a group of road workers were doing a couple of days ago. They had at least 100 traffic cones lined up, and at the end of the line of cones were two road-work trucks, and between them: guys having a break, enjoying the view. Traffic was minimal, so it wasn't a big deal, it was just something that made you wonder: Should you be annoyed, or jealous?

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