You Know You're A Roadgeek If...

[agentsteel53]

They may ask you where does that highway go to?

and they may ask you, what is that beautiful house?

[Grzrd]

They may ask you where does that highway go to?

and they may ask you, what is that beautiful house?

Those with short attention spans may ask you, well, how did we get here?

[Takumi]

Same as it ever was.

[Grzrd]

Same as it ever was.

Tunnel going underground.

[Dr Frankenstein]

3A - You use Google Maps to draw every BGS in another state/province in the style of your state/province, because you like your style better.

3B - Alternately, you draw every BGS in YOUR state/province in the style of some OTHER state/province, because you like their style better.

3C - You do both of the above, just because you can.

You take your favourite parts of the styles you've seen and you put them together to invent your own style. But I've been known for Québecising signs too.

[vtk]

They ask you why a major road or freeway is under construction and/ or what are they doing?

Yeah, my friends and family treat me like a Public Information Officer for ODOT^"  and/or FCEO^"¡ sometimes.  I don't mind.

And now I've got Once In A Lifetime stuck in my head, haha!

" Ohio Department Of Transportation
"¡Franklin County Engineer's Office

[yakra]

Same as it ever was.

Tunnel going underground.

Water flowing underground.
Right into the Big Dig.

[Brandon]

Same as it ever was.

Tunnel going underground.

Water flowing underground.
Right into the Big Dig.

There is water at the bottom of the ocean.

[vtk]

There is water at the bottom of the ocean.

I should hope so.  Same goes for the top of the ocean, and the middle...

[Brandon]

There is water at the bottom of the ocean.

I should hope so.  Same goes for the top of the ocean, and the middle...

Ever hear the song "Once In A Lifetime" by the Talking Heads?

It's one of the lyrics.

[vtk]

Ever hear the song "Once In A Lifetime" by the Talking Heads?

And now I've got Once In A Lifetime stuck in my head, haha!

[hotdogPi]

You make all the important real life roads in a 25 mile by 25 mile area in Minecraft, complete with buildings.

(True for me, with northeast Massachusetts, and it took over a day of playing time to make.)

[Grzrd]

Same as it ever was.

Tunnel going underground.

Water flowing underground.
Right into the Big Dig.

Water dissolving and water removing
The Big Dig
Remove the water, carry the water
From the Big Dig

[Alps]

Same as it ever was.

Tunnel going underground.

Water flowing underground.
Right into the Big Dig.

Water dissolving and water removing
The Big Dig
Remove the water, carry the water
From the Big Dig

Letting the days go by
Big Dig going under
Once in a lifetime
Mass getting no more money

[Grzrd]

Same as it ever was.

Tunnel going underground.

Water flowing underground.
Right into the Big Dig.

Water dissolving and water removing
The Big Dig
Remove the water, carry the water
From the Big Dig

Letting the days go by
Big Dig going under
Once in a lifetime
Mass getting no more money

And we may all ask ourselves, my god, what have they done?

[mUtcd33]

-You can name the number and termini of every highway within (at least) a 60-mile radius of your home
-One of life's goals for you has been driving Route 1 from Key West to the Canadian border at Fort Kent, ME
-You know that there is officially no Route 66 anymore (decommissioned in the 1980s)
-School bus drivers asked you for directions to field trips as a child
-You think of Breezewood as a tourist attraction
-I-99 gets on your nerves, unless you live along the current or planned route of I-99 (except those whose homes were taken in public domain), in which case you love I-99
-You know that there are two I-84's and two I-76's
-You know the name of every county you've been through
-You have EZ-PASS
-You can name all the interchanges on the Penna. Turnpike

[Pete from Boston]

Same as it ever was.

Tunnel going underground.

Water flowing underground.
Right into the Big Dig.

Water dissolving and water removing
The Big Dig
Remove the water, carry the water
From the Big Dig

Letting the days go by
Big Dig going under
Once in a lifetime
Mass getting no more money

And we may all ask ourselves, my god, what have they done?

I always related more to "The Big Country":

I see the shapes,
I remember from maps.
I see the shoreline.
I see the whitecaps.
A baseball diamond, nice weather down there.
I see the school and the houses where the kids are.
Places to park by the factories and buildings.
Restaunts and bar for later in the evening.
Then we come to the farmlands, and the undeveloped areas.
And I have learned how these things work together.
I see the parkway that passes through them all....

[NE2]

-You know that there is officially no Route 66 anymore (decommissioned in the 1980s)

You know that more than half the states that US Route 66 served still have a state Route 66 along part of the alignment...

[rickmastfan67]

-You know that there are two I-84's and two I-76's

And also know of the two I-88's and two I-86's.

[english si]

And also know of the two I-88's and two I-86's.

Don't forget the two I-74s (surely the middle bit is totally dead now) and two I-95s (as the bodge isn't finished yet)...

And you know if you are a grammar pedant if you know that you don't put apostrophes in plurals

[yakra]

http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif

[NE2]

And you know if you are a grammar pedant if you know that you don't put apostrophes in plurals

Sometimes one is supposed to: http://www.dailywritingtips.com/when-to-form-a-plural-with-an-apostrophe/
No, this doesn't seem to cover the case of Interstates, but how about the following: "both I-80Ss became I-76s"?

[yakra]

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/when-to-form-a-plural-with-an-apostrophe/

Heh heh heh... "238s"!

[vtk]

I was taught that, when referring to a word itself and not the thing that word usually refers to, the plural form gets an apostrophe.  How many begat's are in the book of Genesis, anyway?  Or when referring to a big decimal-centric group of years, like the 80's, or the 1600's (but I'm told this is only in American English and I'd rather drop it).

And then there's the posessive of a plural, where you just put an apostrophe after the s that the plural already has, unless the plural doesn't already end in s, in which case you add apostrophe-s.

And then there's the posessive of a person's name which ends in s; I was taught that you add apostrophe-s, but most people seem to think you just add apostrophe.

[Big John]

I was taught that if you want to make a possessive of a word already ending with an "s", such as a plural, name, etc., you add only an apostrophe at the end of the word without adding another "s".