Have you noticed how many distractions there are for drivers these days? It's awfully hard to concentrate on that silly little road when there's so many other interesting things to grab our attention...cellphones, bumper stickers, personalized plates and billboards just to name a few. Oh, and of course there's those pesky pedestrians and cyclists...the latter which tends to think they have been crowned king of the roads at some point.

I've always loved driving through Toronto and checking out all the billboards, the sights, the lights...not so much fun for my co-travellers if I'm actually the driver and not just their rubber-neckin' passenger, I'm sure! Some of those billboards show entire commercials..not easy to watch at 100 clicks!

Have you seen Grater Toronto's newest "off-road" sight...


Yes, it's an enormous block of cheese, 36.5 metres long by 6 metres high. The grater faces the Gardiner and there is a pile of "cheese", freshly grated. The gratings are foam, painted yellow.
The sign is for the Dairy Farmers of Canada. Over the next couple of months the block will get smaller and the gratings pile larger as more "cheese" is grated. Very clever but very distracting I would think!



One of my other favourite distractions is personalized licence plates. I love the creativity of some drivers! Then there are the ones that only make sense to the driver...those make me crazy if I can't figure out what they mean!

I had personalized plates on 3 of my vehicles...and then I bought a van and that was the end of those...2XELR8...not so cool on a mini-van!

A friend of mine who's single just bought a sports car and I tried to convince them that these would make great vanity plates...

O 2 BE ME

RU NVS

CARGASM

C ME 4 A D8

RU A GR8 D8

The one that I would love to get now but it's probably taken would be for my fellow drivers who enjoy "parking" themselves in the passing lane....RVO 3VOM. You'll have to hold your computer up to the mirror to read it! I love that one..it's perfect!

Oh, and this one...C U LATR...