Signs everywhere and social disobediance

A while ago I lived in Olympia Washington. All over town we’re the same lame signs that said No Skating, No Bicycling, No Rollerblading. In other words, no kids and no fun. I made some stickers that looked pretty much exactly the same that looked like this…

I tried to stick them over as many of the original signs as I could. It was my very subtle act of social disobedience. I hoped at least one person would get the joke, irony, whatever and think about it… Hopefully and possible leading to a positive outcome. It reminded of the little 13 year olds kids at the skatepark who would tell me to get out of the skatepark ’cause bikes weren’t allowed WHILE smoking a joint. I would tell them they would make great cops. I found that would kind of rock them. The street thug attitude of little grommet skaters sure don’t want to be thought of as acting like cops. That might be another sticker… something about skateparks being the training ground for future cops? “Do you sit around on your ass at the skatepark and enjoy hassling people who are having fun? When you grow up you should try sitting around in our squad cars and doing the same thing!” The whole Brian Bylther riding parks in his police officer’s uniform really throws all this out the window doesn’t it? Nobody likes getting told what to do do they?

Well, anyway, don’t tell any skaters or cops about this…

I went camping last night and aside from costing $26 to camp in a tent at a campground with no toilets, showers or even running water in 20 degree weather there were about a millions signs. There was literally signs saying “No Dogs On Beach” every 30 feet for 2 miles along the deserted icy cold beach front. As if that wasn’t enough, there was 2 of my least favorite signs in the world in the back of a dirt parking lot! No bicycling in a state park parking lot? You can’t even rollerblade and skate in the dirt! Come on… I went camping to get away from everything and look at the stars and the animals, I don’t want to see 50,000 signs everywhere.

But jeeze… I sounds way too negative here. The park was beautiful and it was amazing to be the only person out there for miles and miles. Saw bald eagles and deer and everything was so peaceful. Good times!

Needless to say I gave one of these most detested signs a little irritated shove. To my surprise it broke off, flew through the air and landed in a fire. I took a picture of it here.

Well, I’ll probably get some sort of felony for posting this, but at least in 30 feet of dirt parking lot in the back of a some state park in the middle of nowhere you can now legally rollerblade if you want to; till the next sign gets put up.