two completely different days. I took this picture the day after I
originally saw it. I was on my way to an exam the first time I saw
this, and I immediately stopped and laughed when I did. Not the most
usual reaction, but it made me smile because of the sheer surrealistic nature
of the sign. It reminded me of a comic strip I saw a little while ago
called "the far side", in which one of the characters is seen coming
out of a shop named "Happiness". Underneath this picture the quote
reads "his few friends had told him he could never buy it, but Mr
Crawley surmised that they just didn't know where the store is".
When looking at the sign I thought of that comic, and that maybe the
slight amount of happiness the sign gave me was a sort of salvation?
Maybe I would have found something leading to my salvation down that
road it was pointing to? Or maybe the sign originally said "Salvation
Army" and someone had cheekily painted over the "Army" part? I don't
know. All I did know is that it made me smile that day, and if I
didn't keep moving I would be late for my exams.
Joel Knuckles
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