Pics from the Weekend: Rapple and Crappie Derby
I am easily amused by things I see while on long trips…I suppose it’s out of the need to find joy in micro-moments when you’re waiting for time to pass, as the snowy landscape before you replaces the one in your rear view mirror.
Amusing microscene #1: Rapple Gumballs
Hermaphroditic apple-raspberry creatures busting rhymes — you can’t beat that concept. I also think “Rapple” is an incredibly awesome band name, and far, FAR better than “GarageSpin.” I’m unsure what fruit the green dude is supposed to be… (Found on a 25 cent gumball machine at a rest stop on Route 87.)
Amusing microscene #2: Crappie Derby
I normally avoid any event, location, product, or service that is in any way described as being “crappie”. Yet this one requires a $2.00 registration fee. More amusing is the fact that the poster brags about “toilet facilities on ice.” Not for me, thanks. (Seen in Whitney Point, NY.)
Good times, good times.
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Ah–road trip signs are the best! I think in the Rapple picture, the red guy is the raspberry and the green one is a green apple. Or maybe both are hybrids of each other. For 25 cents, who knows! The Crappie is funny too. You know, it took me quite a while to figure out what that actually was! I guess it’s a sort of festival on the ice in honor of a fish called the “crappie?” They could call it a winter carnival, but I guess that wouldn’t be as much fun…