One of the quirks about Jacksonville (and I really imagine it’s not just our city, but I haven’t been in enough to compare properly) is that no matter where you begin or end a road trip, you will drive through at least one area where the road is under construction. I may have a slightly skewed perspective on this since the road immediately outside of my apartment is being gutted and expanded to four lanes, but for the moment we’ll pretend that doesn’t matter. >.>
One particular highway that lies between my apartment and work is also in the midst of some massive roadwork – flyovers being built, new medians, drainage areas, just tons of work. There’s cranes swinging in the air over the road, bright work lights (It’s still not entirely light when I go to work), and dump trucks racing to and fro with loads of dirt. Because the drivers in Florida aren’t always particularly aware of what’s going on around them, the state has large programmable signs that flash text messages.
TRUCKS ENTERING AND
LEAVING HIGHWAY USE
CAUTION
There’s one specific sign that’s right next to the on-ramp that I use every morning that sends, at least to me, a slightly different message. Instead of TRUCKS, it just says TRUCK, which makes me giggle every time I drive past it and envision a single dump truck swerving on and off the roadway, slaloming around those little orange barrels.
Letters are important!
In WoW there is booze. Booze gets you drunk, and drunk makes you slur your speech – the game will randomly take the letter ’s’ in words and change it to an ’sh’, as well as adding ‘…hic!’ to the ends of sentences. Sometimes it tweaks words in amusing ways, like the following emote we saw one night at a group RP session.
Zhalen shits with a huge thud.
Be kind to your letters, or they will totally sabotage the meaning of your sentences. 