When a stop sign says stop...

It's funny really when I think about it. Every day at work I sit here on break staring out the window to the parking lot and the lone stop sign next to our building, watching things that would make a cop fill their quota immediately. The most prominent thing I've seen that seems to reoccur rather often is the hitting or ramming into of our poor stop sign.

I believe I've seen at least a handful of people back into it and a couple hit it head on. Just last year there was a drunken woman who completely totaled her truck for ramming into it front first, giving our stop sign its famous tilt.

In fact just now I watched as a silver car with a handicap sign back into it, letting the passengers and driver know that it's still there. There's a small dent on the bumper and a slight scratching of paint that is probably now embedded on the stop sign pole. Of course they were parking illegally anyways so in a sense I guess it serves them some form of right.

We've recently had to renew the stop on the stop sign, a sign that's not even three years old yet. It's not as if it hasn't been there for long, oh no. I believe it's been there since even before I started my job here almost two years ago.

I've even heard co-workers confess to backing into the sign and the only thing I can wonder to that is how? There aren't even any parking spaces near it, although people have frequently been parking in our fire lane or behind the NO PARKING ANYTIME signs, which I also find rather ridiculous. Are both customers and some of my fellow co-workers so naive to not know that when a stop sign says stop it really means stop? Not that they have to worry as the stop sign will always stop them in their illegal tracks.