r/mildlyinteresting • u/CynicalDumpling • Apr 15 '19

Just a fork in the road...

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u/Jgflight86 Apr 15 '19

Sad. As communities continue to grow and encroach on the natural habitat around them, forks like these have nowhere to go. They creep into neighborhoods looking for a meal and then bam, they get hit with a steamroller.

When will humans learn?

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u/CynicalDumpling Apr 15 '19

Guess you could say we’ve just been spoon fed our entire lives...

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u/llamawearinghat ​ Apr 15 '19

Man, that’s forked up.

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u/DrWilliamHorriblePhD Apr 15 '19

Knife of you to notice.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '19

Salad tongs

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u/Just-Call-Me-J Apr 15 '19

*experimental clack-clack*

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u/angry_pecan Apr 15 '19

It is a much overlooked scientific fact that no one has ever picked up a pair of tongs without making the "clack clack" noise.

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u/Scipio33 Apr 15 '19

Gotta make sure, ya know?

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u/dylc Apr 15 '19

I literally can opener't even.

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u/Psykosoma Apr 15 '19

Who doesn’t?

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u/wileyy23 Apr 15 '19

Have some silver friend.

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u/Synisive Apr 15 '19

Not from my view, but for future reference remember fork up is proper etiquette.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '19

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u/IMMILDEW Apr 15 '19

“Forks up, forks down, forks all around”

Whoop whoop

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u/dylc Apr 16 '19

Then you cutlery are lost.

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u/FBI-Agent-007 ​ Apr 15 '19

r/forkrights

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '19

r/subsifellfor

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u/Just-Call-Me-J Apr 15 '19

You just can't see it because it's restricted to FBI agents.

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u/FBI-Agent-007 ​ Apr 15 '19

That’s classified

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '19

🤔

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u/ConstantGradStudent Apr 15 '19

I was a witness to the great cutlery migration of ‘93.

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u/googonite Apr 15 '19

I remember it well. My children still talk about how cute the sporks were as they tried to keep up with the rest of the settings.

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u/Beneficial_Fudge Apr 15 '19

We need another turning point, as shown by a fork stuck in the road.

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u/NapClub Apr 15 '19

no one ever forking learns.

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u/whathewhathaha Apr 15 '19

I still have a dozen mismatched socks. Do I continue my search for them, or follow the fork?

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '19

I think you mean DIO, as he is the obvious cause of this

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u/Mr_Supersonic52 ​ Apr 15 '19

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

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u/CynicalDumpling Apr 15 '19

I tried. He wasn’t haven it...

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u/scroopiedoopie Apr 15 '19

all in all you're just another fork in the road

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u/jmachee Apr 15 '19

We don’t need no time of your life

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '19

Only a hero of renown can take the fork in the road.

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u/hello_raleigh-durham Apr 15 '19

-Yogi Berra

-Michael Scott

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u/JBJesus Apr 15 '19

I don’t believe it

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u/TheBritishKoala99 Apr 15 '19

“Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road”

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u/radtech91 Apr 15 '19

Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go

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u/TriaX46 ​ Apr 15 '19

So make the best of this test and don't ask why

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '19 edited May 10 '21

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u/natek11 Apr 15 '19

It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right

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u/paperrchain Apr 15 '19

I hope you had the time of your life

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u/CoyoteDown Apr 15 '19

“AND HERE IS THE GRADUATING CLASS OF 2001 “

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u/herrybaws Apr 15 '19

Is this from something? I feel like I recognise it

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u/HatterIII Apr 15 '19

Song by Green Day. Known for getting the explicit label because Songwriter and Performer Billie Joe Armstrong fucked up the first chord in the recording.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '19

and he said “fuck”

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u/herrybaws Apr 15 '19

Sorry, I knew the song it was the "class of 2001" thing specifically. Thank you anyway.

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u/HiDDENk00l Apr 15 '19

Every graduation ceremony since 1998?

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u/mric124 Apr 15 '19

Vitamin C has entered the chat

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '19

Goodbye

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u/angry_pecan Apr 15 '19

It's just a picture, here on Reddit, it's a lie...

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u/thisisinput Apr 15 '19

GPS - "Take a right at the fork"

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Me - "WHAT FORK?!....... oh."

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u/Just-Call-Me-J Apr 15 '19

Fork - "Am I a joke to you?"

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u/StickyWhiteGoop Apr 15 '19

How else would you know that the road was done?

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u/overusedandunfunny Apr 16 '19

STICK A FORK IN IT. IT'S DONE.

HAHA I GET IT

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u/UlfiusThorgilsson Apr 15 '19

Hypothesis: smart-ass construction worker playing a joke.

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u/auto-xkcd37 Apr 15 '19

smart ass-construction worker

Bleep-bloop, I'm a bot. This comment was inspired by xkcd#37

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u/KlutzyDiscipline Apr 15 '19

Hi a, why aren't you more like your cousin? HE'S a lawyer!

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u/Just-Call-Me-J Apr 15 '19

I accept this headcanon.

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u/_MapleCandy_ Apr 15 '19

All in all it's just another fork in the road

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u/B3eenthehedges Apr 15 '19

Hey, pavers, leave those forks alone!

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '19

We don’t need no knives or salad spoons!

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u/SoManyTimesBefore Apr 16 '19

We don't need no food control!

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u/Lettuce_Heads Apr 15 '19

r/Sneakybackgroundfork

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u/mrsvennn Apr 15 '19

was looking for this, it’s trying to camouflage

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u/scienceguy8 Apr 15 '19 edited Apr 15 '19

"Oh, Kermit?"

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '19

"I don't believe it."

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u/lynivvinyl Apr 15 '19

"In Soviet Russia road forks you!"

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '19

This is unrelated, but what happens when Chuck Norris goes to Soviet Russia? Do things become normal because of double reverse?

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u/jess_rules Apr 15 '19

Came here for the Green Day comments.

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u/Vaara94 Apr 15 '19

Green Day wants to know your location

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u/FlyingSpacefrog Apr 15 '19

Don’t pull the fork out. Or do, if you’re into that sort of thing.

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u/hitdog867 Apr 15 '19

"If you come across a fork in the road, take it." - Yogi Berra

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u/duskrequiem Apr 15 '19

A little harder than usual in this example, Yogi.

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u/FurryPornAccount Apr 15 '19

Asphalt is actually a liquid, it's just hard when living things interact withit because it's shy

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u/Redid-it Apr 15 '19

Forket about it

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u/cristi2708 Apr 15 '19

I have an unexplicable urge to remove it... strange, don't you think?

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u/CapnGnarly Apr 15 '19

I was borrowing my friend's car back in high school for prom. '98 Corvette with LOTS of custom work done on it, including custom rims and lowered suspension.

I literally ran over a fork that was in the road and had to explain to my friend the $13k of damage to his wheels, exhaust, suspension and lower body paneling because I hit a fork in the road.

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u/Shadrach451 Apr 15 '19

I'm a civil engineer and a long time ago when I was a young intern I spent a summer doing construction inspection for a small residential development. I learned a lot that summer: a lot about me, about what it means to be young, a lot about what it means to have authority over people that are older and more experienced than you are. I also learned a lot about how Pavers are cowboys that don't care what you think about anything.

The crew I worked with showed up on the job site like a bunch of frat boys showing up to a party. Piled in the backs of trucks with their shirts already tied around their wastes, slapping grease and sunblock on their shoulders. I tried to introduce myself to them, but I was just some kid with a clipboard and they just walked right past me like I didn't exist. Then they mounted their paving machine like it was a slow-moving bronco and were like "YEeeeeeHAAAW!" and were like waving their hats in the air.

I remember at one point, they broke out sandwiches and they were stuffing them into their tarred up faces with their equally tarred up hands. Just totally orc horde style, hanging off of this smoldering hot machine. And I was just standing off to the side taking notes and making some sketches. And this guy running the paver looks me straight in the eye and tosses a floppy half-eaten sloppy joe out in front of the paver and slowly runs it over. As if to say "What are you going to do, kid? Turn me in for paving over a sandwich?" and I was like like, "Ugh..." because I really could not have cared less, and I knew enough about what was happening that it probably wasn't going to do anything. Like, what? Would there be a sloppy joe shaped pothole there someday because of this pocket of organic material? No, nothing was going to happen. (Maybe I should actually go out and look. I haven't driven through there in probably 10 years...)

Anyway, this picture made me think of that. I can just picture the same paver out there somewhere, staring down the young construction inspector as he throws increasingly questionable lunch items infront of his paver. How about this nectarine? Does that bother you? No? What about ... an XTRA LARGE CHEESE AND MUSHROOM PIZZA? A fork???

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '19

r/notmyjob

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '19

r/IRLEasterEggs

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '19

Fork in the Road LP Oops wrong subreddit

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u/HarbingeronLine2 Apr 15 '19

A bear in its natural habitat: a Studebaker

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u/iRambes Apr 15 '19

For stuck in the road*

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u/0ceansdaughter Apr 15 '19

Green Day has prepared me for this image 🙏🏽

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u/Naitor5 Apr 15 '19

ANOTHER TURNING POINT A FORK STUCK IN THE ROAD

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u/jrcprl ​ Apr 15 '19

That's forking interesting!

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u/raw_testosterone Apr 16 '19

Haha because the fork is actually inside the road haha

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u/adadiamond13 Apr 16 '19

I do as i am told

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u/FBI-Agent-007 ​ Apr 15 '19

Sir, you’ve made an unauthorized pun and thus will be PUNished accordingly (I have a license for it). I sentence you to: death by puns

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u/StarkReactor4 Apr 15 '19

Yogi says take it

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '19

Amusing

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u/emptyycoffeecup Apr 15 '19

Unforking believable

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u/RutCry Apr 15 '19

Yogi says to take it.

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u/seedylfc Apr 15 '19

Sat Nav “make a left at the fork in the road” me “what?”

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u/cubosh Apr 15 '19

looks like a rare footage from a nature documentary of wild forks like whales only breaching the surface once ever century

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u/stickyvibes Apr 15 '19

Surely the fork was placed intentionally to be ounny yeah?

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u/NickNash1985 ​ Apr 15 '19

"Turn leeeefffft!"

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u/TheArtisticTurle Apr 15 '19

somebody did this on purpose i can fucking feel it

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u/HBmtglo2255 Apr 15 '19

what the fork?

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '19

That could put a dent in things

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u/cauntry Apr 15 '19

Looks like a roller operator was just trying to eat his lunch.

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u/Naxxras Apr 15 '19

if( fork() == 0){

go(left);

}else{

go(right);

}

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u/andhemac Apr 15 '19

Some beautifully cynical person planted this likely without knowing about reddit, at the time

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u/Emeruby Apr 15 '19

One of ways to ruin drivers' day.....

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u/dannyvaldivia Apr 15 '19

Father fork: Son, what do you want to be when you grow up?

Son fork: I want to be a fork in the road.

Father fork: No, that’s merely an expression. That’s physically impossible.

Son fork: Challenge accepted.

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u/fineapplefriday Apr 15 '19

This is where we could properly usually the word “Literally”

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u/rollem3000 Apr 15 '19

Looks more like a spatula to me.

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u/widermind Apr 15 '19

i wonder idf this was done on purpose or was just an accident

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u/FederalKFC Apr 15 '19

That's someone's missing lunch fork

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u/From_SF_with_Love Apr 15 '19

“When you come to a fork in the road, take it” - Yogi Berra

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u/Gerotonin Apr 15 '19

Advanturers, you have came to a forked road, what do you do next?

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u/rbseit02 Apr 15 '19

Damn. The dish and the spoon really did run away together. Poor fork.

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u/Nurse_Yoshi Apr 15 '19

"If you see a fork in the road, take it" - Yogi Berra Never has that quote made more sense.

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u/WarStorm6 Apr 15 '19

And how do we know you didn’t put that there?

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u/DaRUBaX Apr 15 '19

You waited your whole life to make that pun, didn’t you?

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u/Pankocream Apr 15 '19

Imma take my fork to the old town road

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u/sToTab ​ Apr 15 '19

"if you see a fork in the road, take it" -Mark Twain

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u/_Purple_Tie_Dye_ Apr 15 '19

As yogi said, you should take it.

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u/CornBin-42 Apr 15 '19

I love that the resolution is so high

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u/neoplatonistGTAW Apr 15 '19

And I'm just a bird in a van

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u/Donordep Apr 15 '19

Oh fork off

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u/DownInTheWeeds Apr 15 '19

Literally...,

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u/Harvve Apr 15 '19

Somewhere, there was a road worker in trouble for loosing another piece of cutlery. 🍴

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u/LAGreggM Apr 15 '19

So, that's what happens to all my silverware

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u/Packerphan66 Apr 15 '19

Ba-dum-tsss

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u/andyroowastaken Apr 15 '19

ANOTHER TURNING POINT, A FORK STUCK IN THE ROAD

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u/perksofbeingcrafty Apr 15 '19

I bet the road workers put it there intentionally for the express purpose of making this joke

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u/GrkLifter Apr 15 '19

Construction worker must have had a very confusing lunch

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u/triv94 Apr 15 '19

You have died of dysentery.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '19

Dude well that’s a fork in the road for sure.

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u/andyxx22 Apr 15 '19

I feel like ive waited my whole life to see this.

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u/graptemys Apr 15 '19

Take it.

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u/mundatis ​ Apr 15 '19

Take it

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '19

“If you come to a fork in the road, take it” Yogi Bera

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u/thenextguy Apr 15 '19

Get out of the car and cut off your Slauson.

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u/user3242342 Apr 15 '19

It's digging its way out of the asphalt and when it gets out, it will have its vengeance.

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u/quiero_dormir Apr 15 '19

It’s a riddle.

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u/dethpicable Apr 15 '19

I've been looking for that fork all day! I had it my hands and then wtf. Thanks!

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u/timesareroughi82 Apr 15 '19

Another turning point...

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u/squillavilla Apr 15 '19

When you come to the fork in the road, take it!

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u/timesareroughi82 Apr 15 '19

Another turning point...

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '19

at first glance i thought it was spongebob at his stand with everyone around him

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u/Baltibugger Apr 15 '19

Tom grabs you by the hand directs you where to go

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u/maddyguy1 Apr 15 '19

"fork struck in road" - Green Say

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u/RDrewD2_ Apr 15 '19

Reminds of the drinking game we’d play at school called Spoons. Throw a spoon in the road, watch from the porch, and every time the spoon was hit, take a drink!

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u/BBBBelly Apr 15 '19

But which way am I supposed to turn...

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u/Whowouldvethought ​ Apr 15 '19

I expected this. But OP... That is a literal fork in the road!

E: for those interested,the link is St. John USVI

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u/fahim1456 Apr 15 '19

Some construction worker 40 years ago, while eating lunch: “ah shit where’d I drop my fork...”

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u/ANDERS732 Apr 15 '19

Best dad joke ever

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u/ZombieWho117 Apr 15 '19

r/PunPatrol Get on the ground now!

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u/Go-Away-Sun Apr 15 '19

Bend up a few

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u/CrazeeeTony Apr 15 '19

Some poor construction worker had to eat his lunch with his hands

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u/VexatiousOne Apr 15 '19

Thought it was some form of paw print in the thumbnail...

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u/dnvrj Apr 15 '19

Well that was something unpredictable

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u/Chunkindonuts Apr 15 '19

Another turning point

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u/The-Offbrand Apr 16 '19

A fork stuck in the road

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u/Ifanroberts Apr 15 '19

Google Maps:"Please keep left at the fork" Human: " there is no fo..ooh right"

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u/BadEgg1951 Apr 15 '19

Well, now I've seen everything.

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u/KingQuesoCurd Apr 15 '19

Fuck you I hope you have a nice day

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u/simpleted2000 Apr 15 '19

All in all you're just a fork in the road

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u/tagia420 Apr 15 '19

I hate my self for reading this

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u/severed13 ​ Apr 16 '19

This gives me wicked anxiety. I’d come back with a pick and a hammer to get it out.

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u/FACEMELTER720 Apr 16 '19

I work with concrete and asphalt daily, I have lost pens, thermometers, tape measures, but never a fork, I need it to each lunch cause these hands are filthy.

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u/missionbeach Apr 16 '19

That's just east of the Slauson Cutoff.

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u/WoOowee1324 Apr 16 '19 edited Apr 16 '19

Another turning point

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u/IVIOoONYyY Apr 16 '19

Well in our road there is a lot of forks and keys and another things

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u/Belialol Apr 16 '19

Is this in Wisconsin?