You Know You're A Roadgeek If...

[Otto Yamamoto]

In the aughts, I worked for medical delivery company, in Upstate NY  and I was asked constantly for directions. In 2008, I was riding with Doug Kerr to Billy Riddle's wedding in TN; we were on Interstate 80 heading to Akron, and I got a call on my mobile,  our respiratory therapist was asking for directions. I honestly don't miss that...

STV100-2

[yakra]

...if you pull an old Thai restaurant menu out of a copy of the Illuminatus! Trilogy, and are about to toss it in the bin when you notice the map on the front page, a Google screenshot, uses an OLD visual style they haven't used since like 2010 or something, and then when pausing to dig on it a bit, you see that at some point you colored in the US1 shields on the old surface route through town, and scribbled in a tiny US1A shield next to the Fore River Parkway.

[yakra]

...you discover that route 915 is and is not in the ROAD_INVENTORY_AHTD shapefiles.

[kphoger]

...if you pull an old Thai restaurant menu out of a copy of the Illuminatus! Trilogy, and are about to toss it in the bin when you notice the map on the front page, a Google screenshot, uses an OLD visual style they haven't used since like 2010 or something, and then when pausing to dig on it a bit, you see that at some point you colored in the US1 shields on the old surface route through town, and scribbled in a tiny US1A shield next to the Fore River Parkway.

Hmmm, that's never happened to me.

[index]

1. You have a dream about eating the US 301 Harry W. Nice bridge.

I have no idea how my brain came up with that dream. It was an incredibly odd one, to state the obvious.

2. You have bored your friends to death on multiple occasions talking about bridges, types of them, and how they work, because you, yourself are bored, and need somebody to talk to. You have also bored your already bored friends to death on field trips pointing out MUTCD violations.

[Roadgeekteen]

1. You have a dream about eating the US 301 Harry W. Nice bridge.

I have no idea how my brain came up with that dream. It was an incredibly odd one, to state the obvious.

2. You have bored your friends to death on multiple occasions talking about bridges, types of them, and how they work, because you, yourself are bored, and need somebody to talk to. You have also bored your already bored friends to death on field trips pointing out MUTCD violations.

How do you eat a bridge?

[roadman]

How do you eat a bridge?

In very small sections, obviously.

[Brandon]

How do you eat a bridge?

In very small sections, obviously.

He ate it one piece at a time.
/while humming "One Piece At A Time" by Johnny Cash.

[Roadgeekteen]

How do you eat a bridge?

In very small sections, obviously.

His mouth would have to be really hard.

[kphoger]

If only Michel Lotito were still alive, he might take you up on the challenge.

[kkt]

1. You have a dream about eating the US 301 Harry W. Nice bridge.

I have no idea how my brain came up with that dream. It was an incredibly odd one, to state the obvious.

2. You have bored your friends to death on multiple occasions talking about bridges, types of them, and how they work, because you, yourself are bored, and need somebody to talk to. You have also bored your already bored friends to death on field trips pointing out MUTCD violations.

How do you eat a bridge?

With a fork and a very sharp knife.

[kphoger]

You know you're a roadgeek if remembering a series of numbers is easier when you picture them as route shields.

[thenetwork]

You know you're a roadgeek if remembering a series of numbers is easier when you picture them as route shields.

I've never done that. I'll have to start though, I can tell it will work 

I do it with phone numbers all the time. 

[Roadgeekteen]

1. You have a dream about eating the US 301 Harry W. Nice bridge.

I have no idea how my brain came up with that dream. It was an incredibly odd one, to state the obvious.

2. You have bored your friends to death on multiple occasions talking about bridges, types of them, and how they work, because you, yourself are bored, and need somebody to talk to. You have also bored your already bored friends to death on field trips pointing out MUTCD violations.

How do you eat a bridge?

With a fork and a very sharp knife.

You a giant?

[pumpkineater2]

Your phone passcode is the series of routes you would take to get to a particular destination,
Your Instagram account is mostly filled with pictures of highways,
You are grateful to live right next to a freeway, rather than considering it an annoyance.

[Roadgeekteen]

Your phone passcode is the series of routes you would take to get to a particular destination,
Your Instagram account is mostly filled with pictures of highways,
You are grateful to live right next to a freeway, rather than considering it an annoyance.

What is that destination?

[21stCenturyRoad]

You memorize your student ID with an I-x76, a natural number, and an exit number along I-95
 

[yakra]

...you discover that route 915 is and is not in the ROAD_INVENTORY_AHTD shapefiles.

Curiosity got the better of me, and I checked things out in a hex editor.
There are two records in the .DBF file where ROUTE = 00915.
Looking up these records in the main .SHP file, they both contain zero points. 

[Hurricane Rex]

Sorry if this is repeated, I'm still new to posting.

You know you're a roadgeek if your free time is spent "driving" in  google earth street view on roads you haven't (or can't) driven on yet.

[Roadgeekteen]

Sorry if this is repeated, I'm still new to posting.

You know you're a roadgeek if your free time is spent "driving" in  google earth street view on roads you haven't (or can't) driven on yet.

I do that but I wish there was an option to go at driving speed.

[jp the roadgeek]

Don't know if I used this one, but....

You know you're a roadgeek if you're out of town, and if someone stops to ask you for directions, you give them out better and more accurately than a local.

[formulanone]

When you hear There's No Place Like Home For The Holidays, you assume that man from Tennessee is taking I-81 (or maybe US 11) to Pennsylvania for some homemade pumpkin pie.

[Max Rockatansky]

You send your significant other vintage pictures of US 99 in Grapevine Canyon just to prove that it is the "Ridge Route"  and not "The Grapevine"  as so many people tend to say these days. 

[Henry]

When you hear There's No Place Like Home For The Holidays, you assume that man from Tennessee is taking I-81 (or maybe US 11) to Pennsylvania for some homemade pumpkin pie.

Yes, and you imagine that everyone from PA is taking I-95/US 1 to Dixie's sunny shores (presumably somewhere in FL), and the traffic is terrific on all the transcontinental highways (I-10, I-40, I-80, I-90, US 6, US 20, US 30, US 50, etc.).

[Desert Man]

I'm a "geek" for anime, esp. this Kimagure Orange Road reminds me of the half-mile long West Orange Road in Santa Ana, CA. Btw, the raven-haired beauty looks much like my wife (and also my mother, sorta resembles Motoko from Ghost in the Shell) and I know other anime girls like her: Rei from Sailor Moon, Kagome from Inuyasha, and another one from Maison Ikkoku.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTOZhZSr6RY