Picture of the day - September 5, 2007

Ever feel like you just don't know which way to turn?

Photo courtesy of Ashleigh Berger. Do you ever feel like you just don't which way to turn? Well, signs like this one sure aren't much help! One of my biggest pet peeves is to be following directions to an address in an unfamiliar city only to find that half of the streets aren't marked by signs - and more often than not the street I'm looking for is one of them! Last week Cheria and I visited our daughter Amy at her new home in South Carolina, and before we embarked on our journey Cheria printed out what appeared to be a very detailed set of directions that surely would take us right to Amy's front door. But lo and behold, when we took the designated exit from I-77 and began searching for the streets we needed to take in order to make it to our destination, we discovered that many of the streets were completely unmarked - and the fact that it was dark outside didn't help matters either! We did eventually find our way to Amy's place, but for a while there it was looking a bit iffy. Sometimes I wonder why towns and cities don't bother to mark all of their streets or fail to fix obvious errors in signage, but I suppose it's probably a budget issue... they like it when out-of-towners have to fill up at a local gas station (and pay local taxes) because they wasted all of their gas looking for a road sign!   Visit the POTD Archives for previous "Pictures Of The Day"!     Submit a photo of your own!            Why I publish the "Picture of the Day"