[alnick]

Maybe I’m reading too much into simple traffic signs.

Yes, I'd say that was a pretty safe bet.

[GregoryFul]

Actually, about the signs, maybe he has stumbled onto something. It seems that here in PA signs are popping up like weeds on highways and byways. It seems that the bureaucrats have way too much money to spend on the most trivial garbage.

Like the Burma Shave placards (methinks proven to be uneconomic for advertising the product), we now have series of "informative" brief messages along the roads; telling us things like "Beware of Aggressive Drivers", or "Don't tailgate", or "Turn on Headlights for Safety", or some other nostrum that passes as a brief (gag) amusement for the bored driver or passenger.

I wonder how much those signs cost, or who's brother-in-law pushed the funding bill through the legislature, or whatever bureaucratic cesspool of corruption having the authority to dispense with taxpayer's money for such a waste of words.