After six months, it's finally gone. I just have no idea who removed it.
One of the things that greeted me upon my return from downstate was something that, frankly, I hadn't expected to see any time soon. Take a look at this picture, and tell me what's missing--
If you said “Why, Jim, the traffic cone is missing from the top of the Range Bank ATM”, well, then, you've been reading these since last November. Some time in the last week or so the traffic cone was removed, and with it, my running gag of the past six months was removed, as well.
A moment of silence would be appreciated.
As I've been joking, I personally wondered if the cone would EVER be removed. After all, the person at the bank who would be most likely to take it down has been off for a couple of months, and Loraine (who works at the bank) didn't hear anything about anyone taking it down. That leads me to believe that one of two things happened--
That either someone at the bank finally noticed, or that a drunk person—probably much like the one who originally put the traffic cone on the ATM in the first place—decided the cone would look nice in their apartment, and decided to take it home.
So if, in the next few weeks, you visit a friend who all of a sudden has a traffic cone at their place? Well, I think we both have an idea from where it came.
Now that the traffic cone's gone, what will I do for a running gag? At the moment, I have no idea. But you know what? I'm not worried. This is, after all, downtown Marquette. I think I can predict with a fair amount of confidence that someone, sometime soon, will do something that they shouldn't, and will thereby provide us with weeks (if not months) of blogging fun.
8-)
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