and it will be yesterday morning tonight

[calimac]

Over the years since we moved here, the bottlebrush bushes that overlook the parking spaces have become larger and more top-heavy. Some time ago, a large branch from one toppled over and landed in my parking space, fortunately not while I was parked in it.

It took four days for someone to come and clear it out, and it's taken 2 1/2 years (I know, because I mentioned the incident in a post at the time) until someone showed up yesterday saying he was going to trim the bushes. On the other hand, though they said it might take 3 days to do the job, it took only one.

Now they look pretty bedraggled, because they shouldn't have had to wait this long to be trimmed. I should have taken before-and-after photos.

In other news: I am used to seeing signs painted on the roadway reading LANE BIKE or CLEAR KEEP. Today, in the tony suburb of Los Gatos, I found a variant, new to me, of the latter: BLOCK NOT DO.

Comments

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, those. All the multi-line on-pavement advisories I've seen have read from bottom to top, in the order in which you reach them, e.g.
ONLY
TURN
LEFT
So I guess yours reads
BLOCK
NOT
DO
I suppose they're designed for non–lightning-fast readers,which, truth to tell, means most of us.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Yes. Bottom-to-top signs make sense when the lines are spread out, with some distance between them, so that you see the intended first line first. But when the lines are clustered together, normal humans read top-to-bottom. The problem is that the sign designers don't realize that. Thus all the examples that I gave.

[voidampersand.livejournal.com]

Watch out for the XING PED.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Speaking as an English person - where we do our signs the right way round, top-to-botttom - I am delighted to learn that there are Americans who read your signs as I do. Which still weirds me out after five years here. LANE BIKE will never say BIKE LANE, however much they wish it to be so.