@bstorer said:If you think that is touching, then take a trip through Pennsylvania some time and behold mile after mile of traffic barrel marching single-file bravely down a lane of the highway, right past the two workmen staring at a 2'x2' hole somewhere near the middle of this eleven mile march. It's amazing that the barrels are clever enough to realize that the workmen wouldn't dare harm them, because that might constitute actual work. It's adaptation at its finest. My little shithole corner of Pennsylvania rarely sees that particular sight - much more common is the sudden, abrupt onset of traffic cones with no warning, 50 feet in front of the work zone and immediate stoppage of the cones just before the end. Furthermore, we often get "rolling roadworks" (usually filling potholes with sand in some sort of retarded attempt to fix them) where PennDOTsticks a truck with a flashing arrow sign in the middle of the lane that's closed and hopes nobody rear-ends it. No advance warning at all, and DEFINITELY no cones. I've personally had a few near misses where I didn't realize that the truck was not moving.