Saturday, April 26, 2008 - My Integra is a Texan

Well it's official. After 12 years, my car has given up its Californian citizenship and become a Texan. While it's still a little hard to get used to, I don't mind so much the Texas plates.

What really bugs me is the registration sticker. While California has a small inconspicuous sticker that goes on the corner of the license plate, Texas has *two* big-ass stickers that go on the corner of your windshield. They are ugly and very obvious from the outside. However worse than that, they are colored dark blue from the inside and emblazoned with the message "Check the date, love your state." It is impossible to ignore, and frankly, I am just not yet ready to love this state (not that it's a bad state mind you, I am just not ready).

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - US-Canada relations II

Speaking of weird signs at border crossings, I saw this sign at the US-Canada border crossing between Vancouver and Seattle. Is it me, or is this just screaming out for a good smart-ass caption?? Unfortunately the best I could come up with is "express line at the brothel." If you come up with something better, let me know in the comments.

Saturday, April 12, 2008 - An American Werewolf in Canada

I saw something which makes me really question the entire Tim Hortons organization (for the non-Canadians, Tim Hortons is an overrated donut chain)... we stopped at a TH at the border crossing to Buffalo, NY and saw this sign:

Seriously, WTF?? Am I crazy or is this nuts? I do have a couple of theories as to why such a severe sign is required:

• The stairs are really steep and the lightbulb has been broken (permanently).


• The employees are all vampires.


• The donuts are actually made, not by people, but by a colony of murderous gnomes who only come out at night.


• Mr. Horton is actually a werewolf and built a chain of stores across Canada so that he was never more than 5 minutes away from a place where he could be safely contained during his lycanthropic transformations.

If anyone has any better ideas, please let me know!

I feel it is telling that by the time I got back outside from eating my overrated donut and coffee that the door was closed.