Beverage: Avion tequila
Toast: here's mud in yer eye
Today's hobo sign is the Dipper.
The dipper indicates the temperance attitude in the area. Is alcohol available in this town? If the dipper is up and dipping, then yes you bet! But flip that dipper upside down and the travelling man will know that the town is dry.
Several of these signs have inverses, or can be combined with other marks to create more complex ideas. We saw that yesterday with the chair sign modified by both the work and church marks. I heard once that in early Japanese pictograms the sign for pig inside the sign for house meant happiness. But two glyphs for woman in the same house meant discord.
I'm taking a wide berth around that, but I like that the hobo signs can have multiple meanings.
My town isn't dry, but you have to go to the next county to buy hard liquor. My buddy in IT said that that was why moved; to save himself the gas money. I haven't drunk much beyond beer and wine in the last couple years, but the other weekend I heard a lot of ads for this tasty tequila on the radio. I like sipping tequila with Rob, so I thought I would give this one a trial taste.
So I punch it into my phone and drive the twenty minutes or so to find the place. Turns out it was this place. That means its been two years since I bought a bottle of booze. Sadly, nothing amusing happened. I just bought it and left. But I was a little struck that I'd been here that long. And a little disappointed in the progress I've made since then.
But the tequila tasted well enough. Flip the dipper up. This man is traveling soon.
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