Weekly Photo Challenge: The Sign Says
“Share a picture of a SIGN and explain why you chose that picture!”
Watch out for Gators!
This sign is in a park near our house and we pass it frequently. It makes me smile every time.
I wonder about the person who made that sign. What was going through his/her head?
“What do you mean people don’t know about alligators? Are you kidding me? This is Florida! Alligators live in Florida! Alligators live in lakes! Alligators live in ponds! Heck, I found an alligator in the kids’ wading pool the other day! They think just because they’re on vacation the rules of reality are suspended just for them! Wrong! If they stick their hand/foot/whatever in a lake and a hungry alligator is there, what do they think is going to happen? Fine! I’ll spell it out for them! In detail! With exclamation points!”
Moral of the story: If you’re in Florida and there is a lake/pond/pool/wading pool/puddle on the sidewalk the safe thing to do is assume there’s an alligator in it. Because there probably is.
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Maybe the signs are for people like me who visit and do not know this. I would never have thought that alligators could be found in any pool of water.
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The exclamation points make me smile because Winter Park is a very proper place. The sign maker must have been very exasperated that day!
It’s truly amazing where alligators can be found. When we lived in Mexico Beach I was held hostage by one sunning itself behind my car in the driveway.
For the most part, you don’t see them except during mating season or if you get too near their nest. Even those of us who have lived here for years can forget they’re there. We used to live on a lake and rarely saw them except at night. We’d shine flashlights and lots of red eyes cruising the lake could be seen. We wondered how we could have that many and NOT see them.
The scary thing is, if you get one that’s been fed, it loses all fear of humans and those can be very aggressive. They’ll also lurk in the shallows and grab dogs stopping to get a drink or children wading. Just good to be aware.
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LOL I chuckled at your statement “winter park is a very proper place.”
I’ve lived in Vero Beach for 3.5 yrs now (lifelong Bostonian) and these cities down here are insanely dictatorial and cautionary in their use of signs. I haven’t decided if it’s a control thing or “they think we are all stupid” thing!
Anyway….great choice of sign, and hello from a few hours south of you!
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🙂
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I envy your beach!
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Sounds like you just described every tourist that comes to the Myrtle Beach area on vacation and want to see the alligators in one of the marsh ponds. They act like because they are on vacation the alligators must be friendly cartoon creatures as if they were all in Disney World.
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I spent several years working at our Big 3 theme parks – it’s amazing how many people really do leave their common sense at home. I gently suggested to one lady that she might not want to leave her three small children alone at an arcade surrounded by total strangers and she said “This is Disney, what could happen?”
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Love it! We still tell a terrible but hilarious story about the woman who left her miniature poodle on a long leash outside her Florida bungalow – you can guess the rest…
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Yikes! We didn’t worry about that so much with our collie, Siberian husky, or golden retriever in years past (though the golden always knew precisely where they were and alerted us) but we’re really vigilant with our little snack-sized guys.
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