Time was, when I was a kid and the world was in so much better shape, you had a stop sign at an intersection, and your job as a driver was to observe the stop sign and stop.
Now we have the pre-stop sign. This is a sign, located just before the actual stop sign, that has a littler stop sign on it, and it's meant to warn you that an actual, real stop sign (that's much bigger, because this is a serious stop sign) is coming up.
Really? Are these working? Do people who miss the stop sign see the pre-stop sign better? Why? Maybe every sign in the world needs a pre-sign, telling us that the real sign is coming up.
Sign: Enter
Pre-sign: You are about to enter a place.
That would immediately double the number of signs in the world. That's gotta be healthy for the planet.
Maybe a post-stop sign is in order, thanking people for observing the pre-stop sign and obeying the real stop sign.
I hear Tom Cruise is in talks to star in Minority Traffic Report, about people who get traffic tickets for not stopping at a stop sign, but before they actually don't stop. There are 3 city councillors lying in a pool of their own piss (or maybe it's taxpayers piss) and they decide who will commit the pre-crime of not stopping. One disagrees with the traffic report. Well, you know the story…
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