yesterday, as will and i drove along the south side of 495 on our way to merriweather for thievery corporation w/ seu jorge & tv on the radio, we noticed something seemingly normal: a deer crossing sign.

beware! (it shouted). deer crossing. don’t hit any. we warned you.

but look closer at the geography surrounding our eight-lane monster highway, and you’d be surprised. like we were.

see, there are these enormously tall retaining walls made of tons and tons of concrete. they are super high. they certainly don’t look like the wild; a place where deer could simply wandering aimlessly out of and ignorantly into the beaming high lights of an oncoming semi tracking 85.

which got will and i thinking: that would be MUCH MUCH cooler if deer could actually parachute off the concrete walls. instead of trying to cross the busy highway by walking all the way around the giant retaining wall — i mean, we’re talking miles — what if the deer just strapped on a giant umbrella fashioned by its herd — it’d be made of leaves or something — and leaped off the tall wall only to glide peacefully into oncoming traffic?

the sign could look like this instead:

yes, please.