Mad Wife.

[jonesfam]

After 31 years of marriage, 36 years with my wife, a daughter & 2 female Foster Children, I have decided I really don't understand women.
A couple of weeks ago we were driving along & went past a Flash for Cash speed camera, shortly after my wife asked why roads were the colour they are? I replied that I think it had to do with the gravel they used & that tar was blue/black.
She didn't say anything for a while then piped up that roads should be all different colours & that it would be easy with some big drums of food colour or similar.
I, being male, could not figure out what the hell she was on about, so I said why? To look pretty?
She said no & that I was stupid. I must be, because I could not see why she would want roads to be different colours, I asked her to clarify her statement.
She said that roads should be different colours for different speed limits, like blue/black for 100kph, yellow for 60kph & so on. She said then there would be no excuse for missing a speed sign or being somewhere unfamiliar & so on for 10 minutes.
I pointed out that it would cost a lot of money to resurface every road, some colours would glare car lights back & that food colouring would wash out.
She called me stupid again & said that they were always doing roadwork & could do it over time, they have the CSIRO to work out what colours & sort of dye would work & that pink should be 50kph because I would hate that.
I then cave up the argument, there was no winning, decided I was right 31 years ago & that she is mad, drove in stolid silence because I'm not stupid & could not get the thought of pink roads out of my head.

Just as an aside to the above, my wife restarts conversations in the middle that I thought were finished days ago & expects me to know what she is on about, to pick back up on the conversation like it never stoped & not look at her like she is from Mars.
Unfortunately, I have got so used to this I can step right back into the conversation as if it didn't stop at least 25% of the time.

Women really are strange animals!
Jonesfam

[loanrangie]

I have 2 daughters so i'm out numbered, will have power in the shed by mid week ;).

[Ausfree]

You could colour the centre lines different colours for different speed limits, I have seen mention of this before!!!:D

[Chucaro]

After 31 years of marriage, 36 years with my wife, a daughter & 2 female Foster Children, I have decided I really don't understand women.
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Women really are strange animals!
Jonesfam

You are a slow learner :D
Now you know why we need a backyard shed with all the goodies on it :D

[Bearman]

And it took you 30 odd years to work that out! :D

[jonesfam]

On the morning of our 20th wedding anniversary I got out of bed singing, "Would have got out today, would have got out today..."

Once the blood had been cleaned up & the bruises healed I decided to stick to singing the 70's classics.

Jonesfam

[PhilipA]

Hmmm, coloured roads!
Maybe like the bus lanes in Sydney that are coloured red.
Maybe in ravenshow you don't have them.
Or regarding lines, the blue lines for the Sydney Olympics marathon are still on the roads that have not been resurfaced.
Your wife has some good Ideas!
Regards Philip A

[rar110]

gee, I'm not alone.

[jonesfam]

You're not alone?
Mad Wife or Coloured Roads?
Jonesfam

[Blknight.aus]

its been trialed (colouring the center line) I remember reading about it and thinking it would be a good idea....

I think the reason it wasnt adopted was becuase of expense and colour perception issues.

[Don 130]

Wouldn't be easier to tattoo the left side of the lane with a small version of the speed sign? It could be done in conjunction with line marking. more frequent for the slower speeds, less so for higher speeds.And while we're at it, a bold lime yellow line each side of the centre one for the entire length of school zones.

[tonic]

Could be done if all the roads were concrete using oxide, don't think it can be done with tar, but cant see why not.

As for the wife :Rolling:good luck with that, perhaps you could get her a mood ring, if it works you can check the colour of that before you open your mouth, or see when to close it fast. As my mate says, god made them all the same.

[Chops]

This is why we are into cars and the like :D,,, just imagine if you were into cooking and cleaning stuff,,, you'd be having these sort of conversations all the time,, :eek:

[cjc_td5]

Can't comment on the mad wife bit, I have enough troubles with my one here :D:D:D

You can oxide colour the bitumen to whatever colour you like, but most of the "colour" of a road comes from the stone or aggregate colour. You would need different colour stones to get a truely different coloured road. The red bus lanes etc are painted that colour.

White lines are the cheapest to provide. From memory yellow linemarking paint is about 30% more expensive than white paint.

There are issues with perception of white linemarking on light coloured (granite) aggregate seals. We did a feasibility study of introducing yellow linemarking instead. It fell over due to cost, it would be cheaper to just remark the lines more often (and hence keep them brighter) in white paint than to use a coloured paint.

[superquag]

... Nobody reads books anymore...