Old Dork Yells at Clouds

Respect Works Here

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Respect Works Here

Respect is earned, not given. Passive agressive signs like this don't work. They didn't work during the pandemic to stop the Karens from talking about MY HIPAA RIGHTS or when employers complained that they had to close because they couldn't find workers who would work for poverty wages.

People are going to be jerks. Sorry. A sign won't change that. Maybe you should consider not denying people the medcine they need, paying your staff better, and improving labor conditions before wasting money on a sign that won't do anything?

I know this sign was probably put up before Luigi, but it is a bit amusing to consider that a large corporation's response to a grassroots movement against their unjust industry is a cling on a fortified drive-through window.

Keep Our Pedestrians Safe

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Keep Our Pedestrians Safe

I agree with you, Plano Police Department. Let's keep our pedestrians safe. Let's install crosswalks at all corners of mid-block intersections instead of on just one side. Let's give a bunch of overly wide stroads road diets so that pedestrians have more of a buffer from traffic that travels at 40+ miles per hour. Let's make our traffic light cycles actually do something when a pedestrian presses a crossing button instead of having no effect whatsoever. Let's actually create safe alternate routes for pedestrians when we do our endless road construction instead of just closing sidewalks and intersections to pedestrians.

Oh, wait, I'm getting a bulletin from the city council. These signs were just put up to get drivers to harass homeless people since the Supreme Court invalidated anti-panhandling ordinances. Let's only put these signs up in low and middle income areas and along transit routes and not in the wealthy transit deserts.

Le sigh. This is why we can't have nice things.