Would this be rude?

I've got a guy across from the shop who makes custom stickers/ placards/ signs/ t-shirts- what have you.
He popped over today for some steel and we got to BS'ing. We were both complaining about the "spring break" traffic...again... and started throwing out ideas for bumper stickers. After all the brainstorming, giggling and laughing, how bad is this one?- (just to let the tourists remember that people actually work, live, and commute to work on this section of I-70) this is bad but .....you add your own.
"Relax, I know this road better than the back of your girlfriends head!"

...so wrong yet, so right. JB (yes, I'm frustrated with traffic these days)

 

Yeah, that would be rude. No doubt about it.

 

My Brother-in-law lives up in Estes Park CO. We head out there once a year to visit him, and the tourist are just morons. He actually calls the Tourons "Tourist morons". You could make one of those up

PS: It is useless on the rear bumper though. It is those that in front of you and going 10-20mph under the speed limit that you need to inform! Put it up on your windshield, backwards that way they can read it through their rear view!

 

Tourist season hits here in October. It is insane. I'm not kidding...they close the schools for a week because the school buses can't get through the traffic. The drive I made the night before last I probably saw 3 other cars in 20 miles...that will turn into gridlock the second week of October and take 2-3 hours instead of 20 minutes.

 

One more advantage of living where no one wants to see. As long as I stay out of Fayettenam, I'm good. Can't stand traffic.

 

What's so touristy in Indiana to see, I'm curious?

 

Covered bridges

 

Ah, that makes sense! There's one covered bridge about 2 miles from me that used to get some traffic, but they had to close the road 5 years ago when a large truck damaged the bridge, which helped cut down on car traffic, but then cyclists flooded the area because they could still ride their bikes through. Then last summer construction workers were repairing the bridge, and somehow collapsed the entire thing!

 

My BIL has made a boatload of money restoring them and they are probably 80% of my county's economy.

 

I feel your pain re the tourist trade. The island I live on is roughly a circle of approx 15 mi diameter, with a population of about 10,000, we get 4 million visitors a year, 95% of them in 6 months. They do bring a boatload of money with them though.

 

Gotta ask- Is your BIL a kinda crazy man who owns pit bulls? And guns, lots a guns? I'm actually serious, I knew a guy who called them the same thing, used to live up Saint Mary's. Never heard anyone else use that term.

 

Hum. I know he has a handgun and that's about it I think. He is not an animal person at all, so must be a different person. Wow, that would have been a smal world though!

 

The floods were nuts out there. My in-laws were out there when that happened, and took some crazy pictures of Big Thompson overflowing its banks. His house is high and dry so he hand no problems. We were out there in August "skipped our 2013 trip because of the damage" and he took us on a tour of some of the harder hit areas. Wow, is all I can say!

 

It's already begun.
I-70 is being widened to 3-lane E. bound from Empire Junction to Idaho Springs, where it will flow into the new 3-lane at the Twin Tunnels. They've just about completed the larger overpass in the middle of I.S., and will start demo. and new construction of the East overpass soon. No talk of the West underpass being widened yet, but it will be a mess.
CDOT has already installed new highway control lights, just not activated them yet. They are big 'ol honkin red/yellow/green traffic lights meant for "flow control" from Silverthorne to Idaho Springs. I received all of the old structures at the shop, probably 40 tons of signage.
It's under contract to be completed by Nov., fat chance of that. It is/ will be a huge mess and I'm right in the fricken middle of it.
Ugh !
(and don't get me started on that "peak travel" thing, Oleg can stay away from here!)