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Whose Sign Of The Times?
Nov. 29th, 2013 09:36 pmA couple weeks ago, on my way to the scale model club meeting in Knoxville, I stopped at a BP station for a fill-up and noticed that there was a crew at work painting the pump barriers and the streetlight posts. They were cutting down the plastic temporary signs these places always have ("Play The Lottery Here" or "Special On Pepsi") and throwing them in the dumpster in the back corner of the property.
I'd seriously thought to go retrieve the signage, as the plastic material is good for scratchbuilding scale models. But I had a meeting to go to, and the night was cold, and even on my way back to the house I mulled it over more and came to the same conclusions. It would probably be easier for me just to look up a signmaker and either ask for surplus pieces or buy the raw material through that channel.
I went past the place today. It's no longer a BP. I couldn't take their plastic then; now they can't take MY plastic.
Plastic isn't the future anymore. It's the now.
FP
