A Sign Of......?

 

I live in the Midwest. While driving up to our cabin recently, I spotted a roadside billboard adjoining an urban highway sporting this message: “Dine local. End HIV.”

My first thought was, “What the bleeping bleep?!”

After I had a chance to ruminate on the message for a bit, I had a second thought-- which was, “What the bleeping bleep?!”

Am I not privy to some deep underlying meaning? Does it make perfect sense to others? To anyone else? I was almost afraid to pen this post, in case I actually am somehow oblivious to some great and grave coded message contained within those four words. I mean, I’m not trying to offend anybody, but this seems vaguely offensive to me…or any sentient being. To me, this is utterly non-sensical, the mother of all non-sequiturs. Akin to stating, “Look both ways before crossing the street. Save the whales.” What the hell?! But what do I know? Maybe if members of the LGBTQ Community eat at establishments more far flung they are more likely to engage in riskier, unprotected casual sex with a greater number of fellow LGBTQ diners? This makes less than no sense to me, but, again, I could be wrong.

Could I be, though?

Is this some sort of a sign of the times…or possibly a sign of the End Times?

I guess we’ll just have to say that this is a puzzler and leave it at that.

Anyway, “Don’t drive drunk. Climate justice is human justice.”

Or whatever. What the bleep.