desperation? inanity?
at first i ignored this, because i thought giving it air might lend it some sort of strange credibility. but it has become so freaking hilarious that i finally brought my camera into work, since i didn't think i could properly describe it without show and tell.
we were, admittedly, kind of excited when the democratic/obama headquarters moved in across the street from my workplace about 4 or 5 months ago.
but then, a few weeks ago, our next door neighbour started getting a bit outspoken in front of her business.
her business! i guess i will no longer be buying yarn from one of the 2 local yarn stores i'd been frequenting for the past several years.
i am very sad to say i missed by a day or two the 2 (2!) 5-foot signs she had posted in front of her building. (although they appear to still be in her lawn--discarded on the left there against the fence.) i am a bit in awe of the fact that someone would do that in front of their retail business.
she has now, by the way, become the unofficial republican headquarters in downtown cary. visit her if you need any mccain lawn signs--she gives them out all day long.
our brand-new next-door neighbour on the other side decided to get in on the action last week.
and across the street, right next door to the obama headquarters, this turned up yesterday. i hope you can get a good feel for just how freakin' huge these signs are.
note, they are careful not to obscure any of their own business signage with their LOUD political signs.
this has not been the case for my office building. for the past 3 or 4 days, another pickup with another of these ENORMOUS signs carried in a trailer behind the truck, has been parking directly in front of our building--completely blocking the view of our building and signage from the road. i imagine they were becoming a bit frustrated with the lack of political affiliation displayed by our businesses, so they decided to speak for us.
this is the itty-bitty sign for my office building that we fought the town of cary for for almost a year. they limited the size of the sign, the size of the lettering, and also demanded that the sign be parallel--rather than perpendicular--to the road. it's a masterpiece, no? can *you* read it? from across the street?!?
also here you will see my and my boss's cars parked out front. spaced far apart just enough that you can kinda see our sign, but that big honkin' truck with the big honkin' mccain sign on its trailer could not park in front of us today.
and this is the lady who has been parking the big honkin' truck with its big honkin' sign in front of our building (she's good friends with the woman who owns the yarn store next door). here, she would be yelling at my boss's husband because we parked in the street in front of our own building so that she could not fit her truck there today. no. really. i'm not kidding.
go cary. go republicans.
er. what is the mentality behind this again? except for plain old intimidation tactics? or to prove that some of us haven't made it past the 6th grade?
we were, admittedly, kind of excited when the democratic/obama headquarters moved in across the street from my workplace about 4 or 5 months ago.
but then, a few weeks ago, our next door neighbour started getting a bit outspoken in front of her business.
her business! i guess i will no longer be buying yarn from one of the 2 local yarn stores i'd been frequenting for the past several years.
i am very sad to say i missed by a day or two the 2 (2!) 5-foot signs she had posted in front of her building. (although they appear to still be in her lawn--discarded on the left there against the fence.) i am a bit in awe of the fact that someone would do that in front of their retail business.
she has now, by the way, become the unofficial republican headquarters in downtown cary. visit her if you need any mccain lawn signs--she gives them out all day long.
our brand-new next-door neighbour on the other side decided to get in on the action last week.
and across the street, right next door to the obama headquarters, this turned up yesterday. i hope you can get a good feel for just how freakin' huge these signs are.
note, they are careful not to obscure any of their own business signage with their LOUD political signs.
this has not been the case for my office building. for the past 3 or 4 days, another pickup with another of these ENORMOUS signs carried in a trailer behind the truck, has been parking directly in front of our building--completely blocking the view of our building and signage from the road. i imagine they were becoming a bit frustrated with the lack of political affiliation displayed by our businesses, so they decided to speak for us.
this is the itty-bitty sign for my office building that we fought the town of cary for for almost a year. they limited the size of the sign, the size of the lettering, and also demanded that the sign be parallel--rather than perpendicular--to the road. it's a masterpiece, no? can *you* read it? from across the street?!?
also here you will see my and my boss's cars parked out front. spaced far apart just enough that you can kinda see our sign, but that big honkin' truck with the big honkin' mccain sign on its trailer could not park in front of us today.
and this is the lady who has been parking the big honkin' truck with its big honkin' sign in front of our building (she's good friends with the woman who owns the yarn store next door). here, she would be yelling at my boss's husband because we parked in the street in front of our own building so that she could not fit her truck there today. no. really. i'm not kidding.
go cary. go republicans.
er. what is the mentality behind this again? except for plain old intimidation tactics? or to prove that some of us haven't made it past the 6th grade?