Um, thanks, but I’ll take care of that myself…

This blog has featured several humorous signs that I’ve either heard about or spotted in my years of traveling throughout the Land of Enchantment.

One that I’ll never forget was a roadside sign on U.S. 64 between Farmington and Shiprock. The crudely painted sign outside a booth made from juniper and pinon branches on the Navajo Nation attempted to lure passing cars to to stop and buy:

“Avon Products and Live Goats”

Another set of signs just outside of Farmington included one advertising an adult video store, with a larger billboard just behind it saying “Jesus is Watching.”

In Albuquerque several years ago, I spotted a directional sign for a cottage industry in the back of a North Valley residence and immediately sensed a false pain in my posterior. It read:

“Taxidermy in Rear”

Espanola for years featured a billboard for a local dentist who claimed:

“We can fix anything but pottymouth”

Then there were these two signs posted in the Gila National Forest last year:

Couldn’t they just have put the information on that sign and save the cost of making another?
Should we be worried about what awaits us down this road?

And of course, many people have searched for a business in Las Vegas, NM, named “Dick’s Liquors.” (My late brother insisted that the establishment was originally named “Dick Liquors.”)

Vintage matchbook cover from the liquor store which I’m told was originally named “Dick Liquors.”

So when driving down our residential street this week, I spotted this van parked on the side of the road and thought its message was worth of a mention:

Yes, it says “Organs Cleaning>”

I’m sure the “Organs” is a reference to our picturesque Organ Mountains, but maybe the owner also cleans church organs or cleans… well, I won’t go there. But at least the business claims it’s bonded and insured in case things go wrong and you can’t afford or are too embarrassed to see a medical specialist.

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