The Rest of the Story?
This post is in honor of the recently late Paul Harvey.
I was going North on LaVista this morning and saw this sign out of the corner of my eye.
I went on to my destination, and on the way back home, pulled over and took this picture.
There's so much here to ponder. We have all of these stores. Which is the author of the reader board at the bottom of the sign on the right side of the picture? Double click the picture if you can't read it.
My best bet? A kid who is about to be fired.
Then there are DeKalb County's finest in the lower left, sitting in the classic cooping position. Or are they monitoring the sign with hope of mounting an investigation?
Just what is the rest of the story? Good day.
8 comments:
And now you've posted a picture with sex in it, so the hits are gonna go up for sure...
Don't rule out vandals rearranging the letters. When I was a lot younger, there was a neighborhood movie theater that would advertise the Now Showing films on a movable letters type sign like the one in the picture. One week the two films that were showing (TWO FILMS!?!?! This really IS an old story.) were The Fog and Chapter Two. Some local wag had changed the sign so that one of the movies was "Chopter Two". I'll let you figure out what that made the name of the other film.
Now that the statute of limitations has run out, I will cop to having once removed a letter from a sign at a Schlotzsky's Deli in Madison, WI. (I didn't steal the letter, I merely let it drop to the ground and pushed the remaining letters together.)
They were advertising their "New All-American Angus" sandwich. You can guess as to which letter I removed. I suspect I was neither the first nor the last to do this.
In my defense, I was with drum corps friends, and we're perpetually twelve years old in each others' presence.
WF
Funny! And I agree with Pos, it was probably someone getting creative with an existing message. Reminded me of my days in the Georgia Tech band. Every road trip, we'd always rearrange sign letters when we stopped for meals.
I'm sensing a trend with the band types (having been a former band type myself!) ... too many brains ... too much time on ones' hands ... nothing but mischief!
We used to steal glasses and/or posters from the restaurants. And correct the typos on the menus.
The best pranks I ever pulled were as leader of our drum line. "Vomiting" (choclate milk and assorted breakfast itmes in a ziploc bag) from the Gasp and a firehose on an elevator full of horn players as the doors opened. The elevator returned to the lobby, the doors opened and the rest of the band saw a bunch of dripping wet geeks.
Those were just two from one trip to Six Flags.
Sign mischief? a carefully placed piece of blue cardboard on a bar in Auburn.
The bar was called "Tuckers".
The cardboard came from a pizza box.
A bong and tequila was involved.
We took pictures.
We became legends.
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