Okay! The title of this piece is a bit snarky, but that’s the mood I’m in today. Billboards have their place in the world, and most countries have their equivalent of the billboards we see in the United States.

Some places ban billboards for anything other than driving directions or similar information. I guess that means a Buc-ees billboard would be okay in one of those countries. They normally have information concerning the location of the closest Buc-ees.

The title of this piece aside, billboards are sometimes informational and entertaining. However, today’s writing question was what I would post on a billboard. First, at prices ranging from around $800 to $3,500 a month, the message would need to be important if I’m ponying up that kind of money.

I mean, really! How many people pay that much attention to a billboard they are passing at 75 MPH while having to watch out for the idiots driving 100 and weaving in and out of traffic? Okay, there are a lot of cars passing most billboards at certain times of the day, but who wants to try and write down the phone number for a lawyer claiming he can get you a million bucks if you’re run over by an eighteen-wheeler while slowing to write down his number?.

So, I guess if I put up a sign, it would read something like this.

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