Signs of the road...

I drove alot this weekend.  Let me emphasize ALOT.  I drove from Nashville, TN to Jackson, MS, then to Indianapolis, IN and then back to Nashville. In four days, by myself I might add.  Music gigs often do not orient themselves in geographically proximal places.  But I digress.  While on the road I saw the following fabulous signs.  

*  The first was actually a bumper sticker stuck on a large new model SUV while driving through Memphis, Tennessee.  It read  "My child has more chromosomes than yours" in large letters and underneath proclaimed "downs syndrome association." 

*The next was spotted somewhere between Grenada and Greenwood, Mississippi and was a "public service announcement" billboard that proclaimed "Hey, Mississippi!  If our children can't read, we're all losers."   Classy, eh?

*My favorite by far however was spotted outside of Louisville, Kentucky.  It was a 4'x4' or so white, square, homemade plywood sign tacked to the gate of a rounded arch entryway to the "Summer-(wood, dale, somthingorother) Farm" and its neatly stenciled painted letters advertised "USED COWS FOR SALE!!"  Really?  I've heard of used furniture or used cars but never used livestock.  I can't even imagine what that could possibly mean (and believe me...I had several hours on the road to try to figure it out!) and I'm not certain I really want to know.

Hey, ain't that America?