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I took this picture this morning. The day after Thanksgiving. This sign bothers me more than any other sign I have ever seen. I just can't figure it out.
This road is in my town. It runs parallel to Route 10 and is the back road to a number of various shopping strip malls and crappy chain stores. These shopping meccas have their store fronts onto the highway but anyone who is local will always take Murray Road to bypass the horror that is Route 10. On the other side of the road is a light industrial park. And along the road and branching into various parts of the industrial park is a railroad track that hasn't been used in a long, long time.
So that's all I know. Oh, the other thing is that no one actually closes down the road on Thanksgiving. I was on it last year on Thanksgiving because I had to go to Home Depot for something (something unrelated to cooking or dinner to answer the question that I just know some of you are thinking). I turned onto the road without a second thought. I was not pulled over, placed in handcuffs or brought down to the station for driving on a closed road. It was kind of disappointing actually.
But I just want to know why these signs are there. There are two identical signs, each posted at either end of the road. They look fairly new, or at least in pretty good shape. So I really have two questions. Why are they there if no on is actually going to enforce the rule. And secondly, WHY THE RULE? What possible reason could there be for closing a road only on Thanksgiving? No Macy's parade balloons get blown up back there (that I know of. I mean, that could be the answer right there and I've just been too lazy to find out. But I don't think so. We're still about 30 miles away from Herald Square and I don't really see those balloons being too good in the Lincoln Tunnel. And if it were the balloons, wouldn't it make more sense to have the road closed the day before Thanksgiving? Shouldn't I close these parentheses now?).
And really, Thanksgiving isn't even the same date every year. It isn't bound to a date like December 25th or July 4th. So what the hell could be the reasoning for this sign? Please, someone - anyone. Fill me in. Make up an answer if you have to. You've got 364 days (or so. See above about the date thing) to send me the answer that will end my annoyance.
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