You Know You're A Roadgeek If...

[kphoger]

Kphoger--out of curiosity, what was your idea?

Sorry, I am not at liberty to say, as it would be a project that's not yet on the table.  He specifically told me not to mention it.

[CenVlyDave]

Ok, just found this thread and all these have happened to me...

- You help plan a family trip from LA to the Grand Canyon and Utah and you are 5.

- You have friends refer to you as "Dave-Dave", including people in your military unit

- When deployed in Iraq, you are more worried about having your camera for roadsigns than ammo when you go out on patrol.

- You have a permanent "Shotgun Assignment" by your church youth minister on any church youth outing

- You are giving directions to your Dad while driving on a trip and your Mom looks back and sees NO MAP in your hands/lap.

- When you encounter an innacuracy in a Thomas Brothers Guide map, you call the company HQ and are personally referd to the VP of the company by the retail store manager as an extremely reliable source on roads, and your only 13.

-You have friends calling you asking for help with directions and you live 200 miles away from them.

-You give cleverly renamed Thomas Guide Map pages that you framed to friends as Christmas Gifts.

[agentsteel53]

- You have friends refer to you as "Dave-Dave", including people in your military unit

what is the roadgeek significance of this one? 

[CenVlyDave]

A play off the Tom-Tom navigational system, and my name is Dave.

[agentsteel53]

A play off the Tom-Tom navigational system, and my name is Dave.

gotcha

[Zmapper]

When you noticed that at an intersection you commonly pass through the Southbound left-turn signal goes first, then N-S through traffic, then Northbound lefts go...




in PRESCHOOL! 

[Alps]

When you noticed that at an intersection you commonly pass through the Southbound left-turn signal goes first, then N-S through traffic, then Northbound lefts go...




in PRESCHOOL! 

I had a preschool friend who moved to Convent Station, NJ, about 20 minutes west of Montclair. I didn't travel most of those roads between age 5 and 17 (license), and in that time the NJ 24 freeway was built. I still recognized many of the features along the way, including the curve in Eisenhower Parkway and the overhead sign support on Columbia Turnpike (CR 510) at Park Ave. I also remember the three railroad crossings on Lindsley Ave./Francisco Ave. in Cedar Grove, two of which were removed by the time I was old enough to drive.

[kurumi]

I didn't want to create yet another thread, so here's an overpass over a 6-lane freeway done in "Micropolis" Lego style: one lane is 8 mm wide (i.e. one "row of bumpies").

[Alps]

I didn't want to create yet another thread, so here's an overpass over a 6-lane freeway done in "Micropolis" Lego style: one lane is 8 mm wide (i.e. one "row of bumpies").

i. want. 50,000 lego bricks. of each style. now.

[roadman]

I made my own hand-drawn signs and used Lincoln Logs for sign posts.

I did the same, although I used Ideal Super City pieces for the gantries.

[broadhurst04]

....you see a new sign assembly at an intersection and you're disappointed that the font on the new interstate shield is narrower than the font on the sign it replaced.

[rickmastfan67]

... you see a Button Copy Interstate Shield and go crazy and others look at you like you're nuts.

[CentralCAroadgeek]

...you sit in front of a bus while everyone else is in the middle or the back.

...your mom questions you as to why you're taking pictures of signs in your hometown.

[Zmapper]

...you sit in front of a bus while everyone else is in the middle or the back.

I do the same, though I won't hesitate to stand up or move back if someone else is standing.

Whenever I ride the Denver light rail, I always try to get the seat closest to the driver that is forward facing and on the right. I like to look out the skinny window at the track ahead.

[national highway 1]

...when you see signs covered with greenout and you know what lies beneath it.
...knowing which roads/railways, etc. intersect/ cross over/under each other along the road you're traveling on.

[NE2]

... you see a Button Copy Interstate Shield and go crazy and others look at you like your nuts.

Can't say I know what you mean - never had anyone look at my nuts.

[cpzilliacus]

Whenever I ride the Denver light rail, I always try to get the seat closest to the driver that is forward facing and on the right. I like to look out the skinny window at the track ahead.

The Washington Metrorail system allows passengers to look out the front of the railcar through the opaque ("smoked") plastic sheeting between the passenger seats and the  operators compartment. 

Not that much to look at in the underground sections of the system, but since long segments of the  Washington Metro are at-grade or above-grade, there are things to see, especially during daylight hours.

[bugo]

... you see a Button Copy Interstate Shield and go crazy and others look at you like your nuts.

Can't say I know what you mean - never had anyone look at my nuts.

You're missing out.

[mgk920]

I've always been able to look 'forward' on CTA trains, too.

Mike

[national highway 1]

...you have Google Earth as an icon in your taskbar (this applies to Windows 7 and/or Vista)
Post Merge: July 22, 2012, 07:53:40 AM
...you have a map of the area you live in that's 20 years old as a Facebook Timeline Cover.

...you walk round a square (plaza with a garden) in the same way as if it were a roundabout/rotary/traffic circle.

[vtk]

...your video uploads to YouTube are primarily about roads

[74/171FAN]

you don't need signs on campus to figure out where your classes are the first week.

[Roadsguy]

• You, as a kid, pretended sidewalks were roads and expressways and did all kinds of reconfigurations in your head and "drove" around.
• You were, as a kid, one of the first to spot US 309 shields instead of PA 309 shields all over the mile markers on the southern segment from the Turnpike to Easton Road around 2008-ish (I forget). This was confirmed by a PennDOT coworker of my dad's.

[mgk920]

• You, as a kid, pretended sidewalks were roads and expressways and did all kinds of reconfigurations in your head and "drove" around.

And you used chalk, charcoal and/or whatever else was handy to draw lane lines, signs and so forth on said sidewalks, driveways and streets.



Mike

[Roadsguy]

Pretty much, yeah.