Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 07, 2024

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I’m not sure I like A.I. running the traffic lights. Unless they regulate the sarcasm.

Must be extra hard on foreign tourists who have to look up the English words in their phrase books.

Sounds like Tourists ducking Bullets.

Outside a Target store?

Let’s see. They’re on that side of the street (with the wrecking ball) but the warning to duck is being shown to the other side of the street. And given the position of the ball, and where it hit the tourist, they should have lost their heads. I don’t get this one.

Spouse and I enjoy mocking the tourists that don’t know about the right turn-only lane as you leave town. And how to negotiate the traffic circle. And which streets change to one-way with only one smallish sign as notification. Well, that and the oncoming traffic in your lane.

The town I grew up in had one street that was one-way (south) on the north end and one-way (north) on the south end. Quite amusing until I came back 20 years later for a visit. THEN it was annoying.

Kinda cuts the guy’s vacation a bit short.

Maybe the “tourist” can’t read English. Maybe he is dyslexic. Poor eyesight? The guys on the left mock him before knowing why he seemed to ignore the sign.

Go to London and see all the pavements at crosswalks painted with the words, “Look Right” for all the tourists.

Add that to the widespread inconvenient roadwork closures during tourist season!

Never saw a Roadrunner cartoon?

This is why it is vital to read guide books and do research on-line before visiting…

And make sure it’s a reputable guide-book I add, having just returned from a trip to the north east coast of Crete.

I was expecting to see a water fowl server set up a table and present a menu.

Completely tangential notion: could this perhaps be an allegorical allusion to possible outcomes on 11/5?

We got those street crossing things in Boston. Only the tourists use them. Natives like to dart between moving cars. That helps to keep the reflexes sharp.

Don’t re-think it Pete. Just enjoy.

POINT BEING - this is an excellent tourist deterrent. Where do I order a dozen for our town

Must’ve had writer’s block to come up with this pointless cartoon.

The Count was expecting Donald or Daffy.

“The Out of Towners” — Jack Lemmon, Sandy Dennis

In NYC the locals would have jaywalked across the street by the time the wrecking ball arrived…

No need for a wrecking ball in the mid-Atlantic area because we have lots of red light running vehicles that will do the job.

Welcome to the big city, pal!

Since our crosswalk timing was recalibrated, I’ve thought about erecting a manicure kiosk to give pedestrians something to do during the protracted "wait " time.

got really good laugh outta me

In a “real” city, they would already be going through his bags.

If he was sharp, he could’ve got a great pic, like a whale breaching in the ocean

At least the sign didn’t add insult to injury by reading POINT AND LAUGH.

Tourists are often mocked, disliked and taken advantage of, but the fact is that many countries’ economies depend heavily on them.

We could all use that sort of thing.

No wrecking ball, but twice — two different times and jobs in buildings miles apart — construction cranes from across the street fell onto the building in which I was working.

The really weird (dare I use that word?) coincidence is that the second incident killed a pedestrian down below, and that person was a friend of an out-of-town friend of mine.

If only it were that easy to thin out the tourist herd.

Man survives hit by wrecking ball >

I’m going to be philosophical and say the wrecking ball represents life and it will smack you if you aren’t paying attention. Just a thought.

You would if you lived in a tourist town

Is that where the name DuckDuckGo came from?

Almost everyone’s a tourist sometime or other.

Maybe the tourist was hoping that Miley Cyrus would come prancing by…

Don’t overthink it. You get the joke.

I guess the moral is “Do you believe everything that you read?”

Sarcasm Saturday!