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Put a sign, get a line

When their is too much money sloshing around in any neighborhood the signs are everywhere.  Literally.

As in this one that I spotted in my neighbor's yard.


  • Telugu classes will be taught.  Please call for timing and fees.  Some appa email was also provided for those with a cellular device who might be interested in having their offspring learn about their roots.  Telugu roots.  While their Chinese counterparts continued to amass Mandarin skills to banter while waiting in the checkout line at Costco.  People are lining up.  It is no different than the old joke about people simply lining up behind an already formed line and then asking what the line is for.
  • Too many German sedans - the house cleaners also drive one.  Theirs are the ones where the tail light has stopped working.  It happens to the best engineered cars sometimes.
  • Now each person is trying to outdo the other in the candy distribution and scare business for the upcoming fright night aka Halloween.  Every dollar pinching, excess earning SOB in the street has the skeleton dog that Costco put on clearance.  Clearly you are not going to be spooked by the first one you come across while collecting free calories on Halloween eve, since your kids broke a few in the Costco earlier in the week.  Then to see that the entire street has got one out might just cause your Joey to be bored out of their mind and lose their candy appetite.  
  • People that could barely drive a loud gas guzzling vehicle are now driving quiet and quick accelerating Tesla battery powered cars.  This way more people are likely to lose their limbs as they cannot hear them coming (with their fancy Beats headphones that would have cost the equivalent of an average person's salary in Ghaziabad).  All these people are not sure what to do when the novelty juice runs out but wait they can always figure it out over time.

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