March 14, 2011

Careful how you drive, wine-o

I was restless on Saturday night. I kept looking at the clock. I kept waking myself up. I wasn't all that tired. Why you may ask... Well, I was looking toward a trip home.
I had spend the last few days at my parents house in La Center Washington for a birthday celebration and I was waiting to get up nice and early to head back home to get back in time for church. Well, the problem with wanting to get up early and head home on a trip is that I cannot go to sleep. I keep thinking I will not leave in time and that makes me nervous. So, I was up at about midnight (really 1am cuz of the time change) and so I left. I headed home at 1am and got home around 3:30 and slept much better once I was back in my own bed.

All this to say that I had to laugh on my way home while watching some marquee signs on the roadside of the Interstate- 1-5, 205, and 84.  The signs that I got/get a kick out of are signs that said
"DUI Patrol tonight". Really? So, does that mean that when there is not DUI Patrol that night, they'll put that up there on the board? Or, perhaps, they put that up there when no patrols are out there, and then when there are millions of coppers out to get ya for DUI they don't put anything up so you are surprised? Or, perhaps there really are many cops out that night? I dunno. But I just got a kick out of the fact that they say that there are patrols out to warn you to watch out for those patrols.
Yes, I realize that it is supposed to be a deterrent for driving under the influence, and NO, I was not under the influence of anything while I was driving so I didn't/don't/won't ever- have to worry about that problem, but it just struck me as a funny thing to put on a Marquee.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

It only took you 2 and a half hours to get home? And is marquee another name for billboards??

TimKirkman said...

Katy, nope. I must have said that wrong if it came out to 2.5 hours. It takes between 3.25-3.5 hours to get home.
And Marquee (as I understand it) is something that is digital that is scrolling text. (But to be honest, it wasn't scrolling- although digital)

Unknown said...

Okay, I see what I did, 1 am stuck in my brain, but you really left at midnight? I hate the time changes, I'm so confused afterwards!!