Anian

Not on the roads I drive. Everyone slows down by at least 10mph to read a sign that says "Wear your seatbelt - extra checks at night". How hard is it to read that? Backs the road up for miles for some reason.

Just as bad are when the signs in the city tell me there has been an accident ahead - about 70 miles away, and at least 6 overhead signs outside of the city away.

moneypenny20

Seen them in the UK and loads of them over here. Shitty idea.

cindyabs

First time I ever saw them was in the Netherlands. The area I lived in had a Catholic majority so many of the memorials were very shrinelike.

Jerseygirl

I think it is/was much more common to see roadside shrines on the Continent than in the UK. I can't recall ever seeing any in the UK before we moved...but I have seen one or two in recent years.

moneypenny20

There's one near us and they have this photo up. Without meaning to be harsh, it looks like it was taken after the guy's accident Flowers are changed once or twice a week which strikes me as slight overkill and the point the people have to park is on a steep blind corner. ****wits in my extremely humble opinion.

I wish I had a job. I wouldn't have so much time to get wound up by morons.

cindyabs

Even with a job I still get wound up by morons. But such is life when one deals with the public.........

Anyway, I am creeped out by the cemetery I pass every day which had one now two graves that are lit.

paranoidandroid

Two possible reasons might include those of illiteracy, and bad vision. Intelligence could also play a part.

AmerLisa

It could, but we're still waiting for some of it from you....

Egg and Cress

Lit??? With what kind of lights? Come to think of it, seems to me there were some solar lantern-like things on graves in the cemetery in Southampton when we went for BIL's funeral. Because it was daylight, they weren't lit, but I imagine the glow from them at night would be a little creepy. Many of the gravesites had bits of whimzy decorating them - one had a sculpture of a dog taking a whizz, another had a Co-Op grocery bag tied to a stake, others had whirlygigs, another a whiskey bottle - really, all manner of things. Can you imagine that sort of thing on American graves or solar lanterns at the roadside memorials? OMG!

HarryTheSpider

Is this connected with "Cheese Whizz" at all?

moneypenny20

That's just downright fricking odd! I'm going to be burnt and then chucked out to sea.

cindyabs

These outline the plots.

moneypenny20

Are they body shaped? Or like a murder scene chalk shape? That could be quite amusing. Well, to me anyway.

cindyabs

Dom't give 'em any ideas............

Dorothy

When I first started working in Adelaide I had a white tail spider fall from the ceiling and land on my desk. The guy from the next office came in, killed it then took his pencil and drew the outline around the squashed remains. Bastard thought it was funny.