Two Words: Sweet Corn

This is too funny but it needs a little explanation.

My son & I were driving on Highway 199 from Crescent City to Grants Pass, taking him to his new home in Portland. Shortly after crossing the Oregon border, we see this sign (which is the same on both sides). OK, it's obviously a misspelling of the words "Sweet Corn," which is being sold across the highway from this sign (with a correctly spelled sign). However, what I think makes this so funny is that I can imagine someone spending all this time and energy painting both sides of the sign (which he obviously did with care and attention to detail), then standing up to take a look at it, and suddenly realizing his error.

Feeling embarrassed, tired, and somewhat stupid, he was not trying to decide whether or not to re-do the whole project, and decided "WTF. I'm not going to do it all over." And just posted the thing for all to see.

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