Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller

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Superfrog said, 3 months ago

This is great!!

Next sign will send us to the swings and roundabouts.
Shaliach said, 3 months ago

Round and round he goes…where he stops…nobody knows.
Leonardeuler said, 3 months ago

From here to infinity.
baslim_the_begger said, 3 months ago

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost
NofT said, 3 months ago

Karma. Whatever goes around comes around.
paigebridges said, 3 months ago

Also known as the Law of Cause & Effect.
baslim_the_begger said, 3 months ago

or an example of circular reasoning…
pawnraider said, 3 months ago

I’ve been there!
Leonardeuler said, 3 months ago

An example of one of Murphy’s laws: whatever choice you make, you’re ending in the middle of nowhere.
Richard said, 3 months ago

He will soon figure out that he is on the corner of “walk” and “don’t walk”.
Brockie said, 3 months ago

Wiley, your creative genius just keeps delighting us each morning…what a way to start the day. Simply…superb.
John Sanford said, 3 months ago

Oh, fork in the road,
which is the path less taken?
If only we knew.
Garrulous said, 3 months ago

When you get to the fork in the road, take it.
TruckDriverFritz said, 3 months ago

I65 intersection with I465, Indianapolis, IN
dsom8 said, 3 months ago

I always find what “comes around” is in my rear-view mirror. I’d love to have it announced with a sign in front!
dianecliff said, 3 months ago

Robert Frost….. sigh…..
NoBrandName said, 3 months ago

He’s really confused because his GPS is telling him to take a right…
Allan Claus said, 3 months ago

To go left, or to go right … THAT is the question …
the GhostPony said, 3 months ago

Tomorrow: High Road and Low Road
okeedoekee said, 3 months ago

It is the same as, ” Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”

Hey TrukDriverFritz, do you remember which path we took in the Grand Tetons in 1974? Up beyond the trees!
Logicman said, 3 months ago

I’m still looking for the fork in the road, and I’m getting hungry because I never seem to find it! ;o
grazer said, 3 months ago

Sorta reminds me of a bad dream.
nomad2112 said, 3 months ago
1. No matter where you go, there you are.
2. It’s neither here nor there.
3. You can’t get there from here.
4. As the crows fly?
5. He’s in need of a good Quantum mechanic.
tskoge said, 3 months ago

Beaten path to the left. Or is that right?
Joe Allen Doty said, 3 months ago

During the summer after I was in the 8th Grade, we lived in Stayton, Oregon. And if you wanted to go to the town of Turner, you could take one of the northern, southern or western roads out of Stayton and still end up in Turner.

We found that out when some family friends went to see their relatives whom Dad knew and we followed them in our car. They never went to Turner on the same road each time.
yyyguy said, 3 months ago

be careful when you step out your front door. you never know where the path you take may lead you.

paraphrased from something Bilbo Baggins said
yyyguy said, 3 months ago

and who would have thought a LOTR reference would ever work in RL?
Dry said, 3 months ago

“”No matter where you go, there you are.” Love that, Nomad

yyyguy It doesn’t surprise me about LOTR. There was so many metaphors in those books and movies. Great stuff
that LOTR!
Carmy said, 3 months ago

Either road will make you dizzy.
Dry said, 3 months ago

Oh and I just LOVE this one!!
Dracip said, 3 months ago

We’re all standing on the corner of Live and Learn…
OldHipster said, 3 months ago

Wait til he gets to the signpost up ahead that says,”Next offramp, Twilight Zone”!

(cue the theme song…..)
treered said, 3 months ago

and did he ever return, no he never returned and his fate is still unlearned, he may ride forever ‘neath the streets of Boston, he’s the man that never returned…..

wrong song?
Wildmustang1262 said, 3 months ago

Which way does he decide to choose and go, right or left?
BC13 said, 3 months ago

No yellow brick road here.
Potrzebie said, 3 months ago

Wildmustang: Just wait and look at where everyone else goes. Look for the succesful types and follow them.
Planet Crunch said, 3 months ago

They should mark this area in a United Sates atlas, a lot of people should go and check it out, maybe stay for a couple days.

Or longer………
icomefromthefuture said, 3 months ago

In the future, roads will be paved with magic!
Trebor39 said, 3 months ago

Must be suicidal, stopped and standing in the middle of the road like that.
4deerinmyyard said, 3 months ago

Dracip said, about 4 hours ago: “We’re all standing on the corner of Live and Learn…”

…but alas, so few of us ever find Live and Let Live.
Bob Wells said, 3 months ago

Reminds me of the Georgetown area of DC…only you’re going 60 miles an hour, not stopping in the middle of the road to peruse the map!
Ushindi said, 3 months ago

baslim: Excellent reference, as of course I would expect from a Heinleiner (as an aside, my personal favorite has always been “Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening”).
lincolnhyde said, 3 months ago

Garrulous and Joe Allen Doty - when Yogi Berra said that, he really meant it - both branches of the fork led to his home.
Bill Wa said, 3 months ago

He won’t be coming around, the one that leads to comes around is a two lane one way road. Theoretically what comes around goes around
Reynard61 said, 3 months ago

TruckDriverFritz said: “I65 intersection with I465, Indianapolis, IN”

Yeah that one’s pretty messed up (I live in Indy), but have you ever been on I-255/I-270 around St. Louis? Been on it twice and it scared the bleeep outta me both times!
EarlWash said, 3 months ago

It all sounds like congressional directives to me!
michael moore said, 3 months ago

Accountability is the mother of caution.
CandO2666 said, 3 months ago

Hey, treered -

Glad I wasn’t the only one to think of ‘poor old Charlie’!
Allan Brown said, 3 months ago

@treered

Havn’t been to Boston since they started the Big Dig but wasn’t there a ring road that really went nowhere just round and round the downtown. As to where you can get the real comming and going I thought was the circle road in Washington
madKanga said, 3 months ago

Or the M25 around London - the Brits call it the circular parking lot