You Know You're A Roadgeek If...

[kphoger]

Sorry to say, my mind initially split them into two signs:  one for a speed limit, one a BGS with Clearview.  Later, I did entertain the idea of a Clearview Speed Limit 40 sign, but wasn't about to hunt one down.  I am, after all, at work.

[drummer_evans_aki]

If you'd rather see a Mountain Pass sign on the road than the actual mountains, you KNOW you're a road geek.

If you like Google Maps WAY more than Facebook, you are DEFINITELY a road geek.

[Roadsguy]

At this point, I almost like Facebook more than Google Maps, and I don't even use Facebook...

[kphoger]

If you've ever actually noticed an error on Google Maps....or any map....ever.

[vtk]

If you've ever compiled a list of corrections for a single map to send to a mapmaker

[Roadsguy]

If you've ever compiled a list of corrections for a single map to send to a mapmaker

I'd do that to Google if I knew they'd listen, or if I had the time and/or disk space to make the multi-terabyte list.

[rickmastfan67]

... you started to clap loudly when you heard Sheldon Cooper on the Big Bang Theory started doing Interstate trivia. (this happen on last night's show where he hacked the Lenard's GPS to use Sheldon's voice and give out trivia)  The episode is called "The Bakersfield Expedition" if you want to go see it.

[yakra]

* yakra heads to hulu immediately.

("Scotty was on the original series", he says, verbatim, about a second and a half before Sheldon does...)

[DaBigE]

You get annoyed when you're behind a squad car (or other emergency vehicle) with chevron striping that's angled towards the center of the vehicle and not properly to the sides.

[KEK Inc.]

When I go mountain biking, I imagine the trail is a signed highway.  Of course, in more intense trails, that takes a little bit of creativity in the wrong times...

[Roadsguy]

I used to pretend everything was a road, from paths in a zoo to supermarket aisles.

[Jim]

... you started to clap loudly when you heard Sheldon Cooper on the Big Bang Theory started doing Interstate trivia. (this happen on last night's show where he hacked the Lenard's GPS to use Sheldon's voice and give out trivia)  The episode is called "The Bakersfield Expedition" if you want to go see it.

... even more so when your wife just looks over knowing you're going to try to answer the trivia question from memory immediately after the Sheldon/GPS asked it.

I got 3 of 4 pretty quickly (Dover, Pierre, Juneau), wondered out loud whether the BBT writers were aware that CC, NV, is now on a signed interstate, and then remembered the 4th correct answer by saying "Oh yeah, we had lunch in Jeff City just last summer".

[vtk]

... there's a road trivia question on The Big Bang Theory and your first thought is to start a discussion on AARoads Forum about it.

[english si]

I was going to, but didn't know where to put it!

[Alps]

One I figured out today

You know you're a roadgeek if you go past your turn in order to U-turn and check out the signs in the opposite direction.

[drummer_evans_aki]

One I figured out today

You know you're a roadgeek if you go past your turn in order to U-turn and check out the signs in the opposite direction.

GUILTY!!!

[cjk374]

One I figured out today

You know you're a roadgeek if you go past your turn in order to U-turn and check out the signs in the opposite direction.

GUILTY!!!

x3!

[AsphaltPlanet]

When I was younger my Dad would make fun of me for always noticing when a road had been either resurfaced or restriped.

He had a distinctive way of saying "new paavement" and "new linnes".

When I was pretty fresh out of school I spent a summer inspecting a roads crew resurface roads in Waterloo Region.  I have always, and still do, really like the smell of freshly laid asphalt.

[rickmastfan67]

I have always, and still do, really like the smell of freshly laid asphalt.

I think that's the fumes talking here. LOL!

[cjk374]

I have always, and still do, really like the smell of freshly laid asphalt.

I think that's the fumes talking here. LOL!

Asphalt smell gives me heartburn & indigestion....so does the smell of bleach.   

[Alps]

When I was pretty fresh out of school I spent a summer inspecting a roads crew resurface roads in Waterloo Region.  I have always, and still do, really like the smell of freshly laid asphalt.

This, and gasoline. Road projects in general, that earthy or rocky smell like something big is getting done.

[CentralCAroadgeek]

You know you're a roadgeek when your informational document for English is how to draw a map, along with a sidebar about the interstates...

You know you're a roadgeek if you draw fictional sign assemblies in your free time at school...

[vtk]

You know you're a roadgeek if you draw fictional sign assemblies in your free time at school...

I drafted interchanges all through middle and high school, applying a lot of what i'd learned in geometry class.  Often there was a city-area map to go along with it and give context; sometimes I drew up signage plans too.

[Molandfreak]

If you noticed the mistake right away https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=37.04175,-88.241501&spn=0.160587,0.225563&t=h&z=12

[agentsteel53]

When I was pretty fresh out of school I spent a summer inspecting a roads crew resurface roads in Waterloo Region.  I have always, and still do, really like the smell of freshly laid asphalt.

This, and gasoline. Road projects in general, that earthy or rocky smell like something big is getting done.

I'm the exact opposite.  whenever I see road construction I think "gratuitous speed traps" and "there goes the neat old infrastructure".