Some stop signs are just there.
Yes we will.
And some stop signs scream out for you to obey them.
On a recent walk around the blocks surrounding the Little Bitty in our Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood, Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle and I came up short at one particular marked street corner.
Past the shouting red instructions was further barriers. They were orange and white. They protected a drainage ditch of some sort. It looked as if it had partially sunk onto itself.
Ellie B would have investigated more if I had not kept a tight leash.
Bad things await below.
Mark Bialczak 
Further proof that you can spin a good story out of anything, Mr. Mark!
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Thank you, Liz. I think. 🙂
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You betcha.
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Good girl, Ellie B!!!
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She is getting better every day, Mrs. B. But still spirited and a food hound! Like her dad. 😉
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Ha, ha!! Does she like shrimp? 😜
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Not as much as me, Mrs. B. 😉
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But … but – there could be BUNNIES in that hole! Shame on you for not letting Ellie B check it out. I hope you gave her extra treats to make up for taking away her fun.
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I gave her a walk the next day, in the other direction, CM. 🙂 Bunnies! I think not. Snakes, more likely.
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What is beneath that flat and cones? That is the whole question!!!
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China? Oh, SD, you are forever cuirous. 😉
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Here’s my question to you. If there was a pothole in China, surrounded by little orange cones and covered with a flat, would they say the hole under that goes all the way to Syracuse?
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I might, but nobody would understand me, pretty much, SD. 😉
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Boy, do I not miss those potholes
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In Floriday, beware the sink holes, Martha. Just sayin’
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There you are…a good use of those orange cones ! ☺
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They kept us away from a deep drop, Van! 😮
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yikes! this sign was a sign!
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It sure was, Beth. From below!
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Bwahaha! I must confess Mark that I am a connoisseur of holes- I know how Ellie feels.Had I been walking her,we would have investigated further. From an early age, I was digging holes whenever the opportunity presented itself. I should do a post on it this week.Holes fascinate me – whenever I see one, I have to go investigate. Some are funny,some curious and some sad. One day I pulled into the supermarket to pick up some groceries. It was a beautiful spring day and a work crew was gathered in one corner of the parking lot with a service truck containing welding gear and tools of all sorts. They were all looking into a hole, so I had to wander over and see what was going on. There were four men,three looking into the hole and one standing down in this hole that was about 2 feet deep. Projecting from the center of the hole was a pipe of some sort. It was obvious that they had just dug the hole around the pipe as the ground and pavement was piled to one side and a jackhammer lay on the ground. They had run acetylene hoses from the truck and the guy in the hole was holding the torch unlit. I joined them and we all quietly pondered the pipe for a few minutes, much like a group of village men gathered around a never before seen object that appeared on the main street. Then I broke the silence with; “Whatcha doin’?” The answer was simple: “Every spring this pipe pokes through the asphalt and we were hired to remove it.” I grunted my understanding and we all pondered for a few more minutes. Then the guy in the hole lit the torch and I spoke up:” What’s on the other end of the pipe?” No one knew. I then continued: “I wouldn’t touch that pipe with the torch.What if it has an old gas storage tank on the other end?” There was a pause, then the guy in the hole turned off the torch. Having done my part, I bid them good-day and walked away as they returned to pondering the pipe. Ha!
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Nothing like being the what-if guy in the story, Paul. Ha, indeed. You left them in the hole, for sure!
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WOW_Terp!
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I’m in this post pretty deep, Gatorette. 😉
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lol
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