Words Without Thought
The town of Chelmsford, MA has a sign outside one of their schools for the holidays, aimed at deterring drunk driving. It loops three different bits of text, something like “Drive Drunk, Over the Limit, Under Arrest” or something. It seems like a trio of phrases thrown together haphazardly. But my point isn’t really the grammar, it’s the timing. Unless you’re stuck in traffic as we were, you might not even see the whole message, and instead, you’ll just see this:
