Job skills come from the strangest places.

Long ago, in the days of my youth, my high school friends & I used to amuse ourselves by stealing traffic cones. One guy's car was called the Cone Cruiser & we got pretty good at precision raids: sidle up to a construction site, then three people jump out, grab cones, & roar off. When we'd collected enough cones, we would use them to set up our own traffic diversions. Best example: we closed off the teachers' parking lot at our high school, causing minor havoc for the staff. This was one of my youthful attempts to make the world a weirder place (to see someone else's contribution to this noble work, click here).

Lately at work, I've been finding myself running around the fabulous Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, moving cones from one drilling location to another. I bump my SUV up onto the curb, throw it into park & hit the flashers, throw some cones in the back, & cut back into traffic. I arrive at the active drilling location & set up the cones in a pleasing fashion around the cacophonous rig, thus preventing oblivious hipsters & Polish folk from blundering into the augers.

My youth was not all wasted after all.


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Also from xkcd....

Two perfect shirts for Ang. Scroll down to find the "Useless" & "Science" T-shirts. They are even available in XL babydoll sizes - sweet. Some real women have shoulders but are still babydolls.

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