Connecticut

As many of you know I spend a lot of time in my car traveling from the Cape to Delaware. I have this problem of being too observant for my own good. One of the things I notice is license plates. Over the years Massachusetts has changed the format for our plates. They started out green, only the back plate was required. Around the time I got my license they changed to red plates, and two became the requirement, front and back. Three numbers and three letters turned into four numbers, two letters, turned into a mix. I think my favorite series are the M00 series. 123 M00 always brought a smile to my face. One good thing about Massachusetts is that we don't have temporary tags, when a car is registered you get real plates right away. Ah, the joy of having prisoners do something productive.
Some states have palm trees and crescent moons, some have sports teams, others have NASCAR drivers; I've seen NY go back to the original yellow/orange, there's the ever popular NJ yellow plates that you see as the drivers either go flying by you or cut you off; the Virginia drivers you can always witness on the side of the highway with the red and blue flashing lights behind them. Ontario will be the one in the slow lane reading the map as driving.
If you've ever traveled through Connecticut, though, I think they take the cake. What other state would let 123 WTF pass the test? I don't know wtf they were thinking, but it's always good for a laugh!

New Job?

Today was an exciting day at work. It was normal until lunch time, then we found the running toilet! A friend at work actually found it, but I was lucky enough to be involved! One of the toilets in our restroom was flushing non-stop, one was blocked and the third was just hanging out. We went in and kicked at it and tried the "jiggle the handle" trick. The next attempt was to try to flush the other toilets. One half worked, one continued to hang out. After a few minutes we figured out that our attempts were not really doing anything and we called the lucky maintenance man on his cell phone to step in and do his magic. I guess a job in plumbing is not in our near future.

Canada, Eh?

I'm wondering if a "Do Not Enter" road sign means something else in Canada. I was pulling in to a local restaurant for dinner and saw a car with Canada plates pulling in the exit that had a big red and white sign reading "Do Not Enter". And they were on the sidewalk. His solution? Back up into the four lane road. When that failed he pulled back in the exit and came in the wrong way. Today's lesson learned? Do not make an illegal left turn into an exit only, drive on the sidewalk, back up onto a highway, just to pull in the wrong way.

Pick on the Tourists

I'm curious what out of state people think when they travel over the Bourne Bridge and see....a rotary! What to do! It's interesting because no matter where they are in the rotary (or round-a-bout) they think they have the right of way. In Massachusetts, you must yield to people in the rotary. If you have out of state plates, those drivers think you yield to them no matter where they are, or whatever the situation might be. It is because of rotary driving I think my car should be equipped with a train horn. Or an 18-Wheeler horn, either one, I'm not picky. Z does not agree, he thinks I might scare someone into driving off the road. It's possible that I leave my hand on the horn for a while when I use it.