John Scalzi's Weekend Assignment #115: Make Your Own Highway Sign

John Scalzi's Weekend Assignment #115: Make Your Own Highway Sign

I'm feeling in the mood of a little silliness, aren't you? So let's make this a fun and simple Weekend Assignment: Weekend Assignment #115: You'll find an online highway sign generator here. Go there, write your own highway sign, and post it in your Journal or Blog. If you're not sure how to get the picture from the site to your computer, it's simple: right click on your mouse and use the "Save Picture As..." command. That should allow you to save it on your computer. The picture downloads as a 640x480 picture, so before you upload you might want to shrink it a little (I shrank mine so it was 450 pixels across). Also, remember AOL's Terms of Service (i.e., keep the language this side of profane, please). Extra Credit: What was the worst traffic jam you've ever been in?

One of the worst traffic jams I've ever been in was the Sunday after Thanksgiving, 1968, on the one mile exit ramp from the New York Thruway onto the Northway in Albany, New York. It was late afternoon and dusk comes early that time of year. A Volkswagon Beetle with two college kids had sped up the ramp and lost control at the top where the traffic from the southbound Thruway lanes to the Northway merge before the toll booths; the bug skidded and swerved, blew a tire and finally flipped over onto its roof, strewing luggage and possessions over two lanes plus the breakdown lane and brought eight lanes of traffic to a halt for over two hours as the extricated the passenger from the twisted wreckage. Some 8000 cars and the drivers and passengers were inconvenienced as fire engines, ambulances and state troopers first converged upon and then took control of the scene. Cars were allowed through the accident scene one at a time in each direction. I know – I was the driver of the Volkswagon ...