americas addiction to signs..

I have never seen so many signs as on a recent trip to Florida. I was fascinated by the sheer number - so much so that I, despite the heat decided to venture outside - and inside - and inside my apartment for that matter with a camera to document this strange and not yet british approach to pre-whining about stuff. I even had some real face to face 'no no no' as I strutted into the sun of the car park. A car pulled off the road and circled the car park slowly as I took a few shots. A resident looking for the right spot I think, I mean why squeeze in when you can drive to another spot - this is not euro parking. A man exited said vehicle and headed in my direction and preceded to ask why I was taking pictures. I was particularly interested in his question "do I study signs?" after informing him I was taking pictures.. He seemed happy enough when I showed him where I was staying but I felt like a trip to the local sheriff may have ensued had I been my usual helpful self. The best part was when he hopped back in the car and drove back off down the road - not a residnet - just a helpful local - a cop - a weirdo - a busybody. He was probably just thinking there should be a sign that says 'NO PHOTOGRAPHY' or 'NO BRITS' as I thought about how he was crazy.

As I started to my photographs I had taken of a whole bunch of signs I had seen I wanted to take a look and see if anyone had written about it so i head to google...

..google....'americas addiction to signs'....enter.....

i didn't find anything about signs in the sense that i was trying to find. sure i found a whole bunch of people talking about signs of addiction...to drugs, porn, shopping, jane's (now theres a good band), war, teens and oil...yup

but no sign signs