I do a lot of driving in my new business...and it never ceases to amuse me the names of businesses in the great midwest passages (aka I70, I44, I65, etc)
A few choice notices of late(and they are real)
"Bob And Sherrills Eat Here and Get Gas" (proof that food emporiums and gas stations should not be allowed to 'marry')
"The Powhatan Food Motel"
(I didn't know peas and carrots had a place to go for an overnight rendezvous?)
25 half-mile spaced billboards announcing that I MUST stop and buy... "walnut bowls" ...(don't ask, I didn't stop to find out)
Restaurants with names like "The Feed Lot", "The Happy Cow"(complete with 5-foot tall plastic bovine on roof), and "Cookin From Scratch" (which wouldn't have been so bad, but the mascott is apparently a 10-foot plastic chicken posed in "scratch" mode---I grew up with 1000 plus chickens - this is NOT an appetizing quality, particularly if you knew what they typically scratch around in)
A sign on a tattoo parlor in Bloomington, Indiana that reads
"tattoos while you wait"......What, like there's a choice here? "Hey Spike, how about I leave my left butt cheek for a quick butterfly, I'll pick it up next Tuesday" while you wait, indeed!
There was also a restaurant/gas station combo that had one of those glass presentation cases next to the checkout counter, usuallywhere gum and candy is kept. During the Christmas season, one of these was filled with paper shreddings, and in the middle was a "manger scene" but the holy family was depicted by varying sizes of ketchup bottles, including a tiny "baby Jesus" complete with a Heinz logo!!
On a commuter flight, I picked up one of the information sheets in the seat pocket, and the first line said, IN ENGLISH
"If you cannot read or understand English, advise your flight attendant now"
What goes through people's minds?
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