an orange barrel. yes, those things.

Suffice it to say that, as an admitted collector of traffic control devices, its only natural that I'd eventually come across one of these things, in a situation where it was both easily available and more importantly *completely orphaned* from whatever street project got it there that way, for a very long time now. Then, several evenings ago around 11PM (!!) when I got asked if I (my truck) could "help" move a big heavy TV from a nearby house, I accepted the also cash offering and said OK. Turns out once we got to that house it was right next door to where the barrel has been laying. For a LONG time, I repeat - like a couple years since the street has last been dug up there, at least. :-)

So after *they* loaded the TV, a kinda top heavy thing, it was once more "only natural" when I pointed over at it while hooking straps up (my truck, after all...) and said "go grab that thing, it'll help keep the TV from tipping over..."

They did, and it did, and now I have a new backyard decoration that fits right in with everything else orange back there...???
;-) ;-) <lol>

I'm gonna add a link to an old YouTube video in the comments (if it'll all let me?) which demonstrates what 'orange barrels' do, for anybody that isn't familiar. This version of this song has been one of my favorites since I first came aware of it because, when it was a 'new YouTube video' I RECOGNIZED IT IMMEDIATELY -- that over-the-truck-hood footage was taken back arounds then (2011) on a stretch of I-55N in northeast AR near MO -- a route I traveled too frequently then, such that it is a little more than possible that I myself drove past the *very same* rows of barrels, probably more than once...they were there to some degree for a few years at least... :-) :-) :-)