Revenge of the Coneheads

There's no harder working guy in Tainan that the lowly traffic cone. They are everywhere doing a miriage of lowly jobs. Here we have a cone reserving a parking spot outside somebody's residency. Owning a car in Taiwan is nothing, owning a parking spot is tough. If you left it ungaurded anyone could snatch it and who knows when they would give it up. This is like calling "dibs". The poor cone is saddled with a used scooter tire to add heft.






















They have the flexibility to work together and rope off areas in a nonthreatening way. Communication is the key.

There is no need for immovable barriers, they only need to indicate what is restricted and then it is restricted. Hit this metal plate, especially when it's wet could do in a scooter. Thank God there are cones on duty.

But sometimes, for the really big jobs, we have to bring in the big guns. Like "traffic scarecrow man".






















All in all, it's a tough life for the cones on the hot streets of Tainan.