You gotta love that Southern education. On our way out of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, we came across this home-made closed sign. From the street, it looked like the author had simply run out of space to write on his crappy, poorly painted-over Good Humor sign, but it turned out, upon the requisite closer inspection, that the author had initially written, “Closd”. In a display of clever “outside of the box” thinking, he simply used alcohol (probably some moonshine) to clean off the end of the “D” and change it into an “E”. I imagine the satisfaction in his eyes as he stood back to admire his work before his buddy commented, “Hey, Poodle. That there says ‘CLOSE.’” A couple of swigs of the selfsame moonshine later, a solution was found.

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