Have you ever found yourself driving somewhere and you're about to take an off ramp and there's all these >>>> sharp turn arrows and the speed limit (as it always does) says 25 mph?
I think you'll agree almost every ramp is like this. (at least in New England. We seem to specialize in curvy roads. That's what you get when you allow cows to design your road system) And almost every ramp is lying. Because the road really isn't that >>>>>> curvy, and you really don't need to be going 25 mph to get around it. So you get used to ramps that lie to you, until you don't believe any ramp any more.
But on occasion--on the very very rare occasion--there is a ramp that is telling the truth. It really does mean that the road is this >>>>>>>> curvy, and you do need to be going 25 mph in order to survive going around it.
But how are you supposed to know that? You've been so disillusioned by all the other ramps that have lied to you your whole life that you have no idea when the truth is staring you in the face.
My conclusion is that we need another road sign.
Only this road sign will be like the Oscar award of all road signs. Only very very special roads, the type of roads that genuinely deserve it, will get this road sign. And because of its sparse use, you will be able to trust it and believe in it whenever you see it.
I call it the 'Slow Down Or Die' road sign.
And I think it should be in bright purple, to present a contrast from all the other road signs that have disillusioned us with their lies.
Because we all really need more truth in our lives, and the 'Slow Down Or Die' road sign would provide us with that. It would be there when we needed it most; the reassuringly eye-stabbing purple informing us that we have a simple choice to make: Slow down, or Die.
'happy sigh.' I love simple choices.
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