Nothing says WELCOME HOME! from vacation better than coming up your driveway and laying eyes on your very own traffic cone. My friends Kit and Bill gave me one for Christmas, engraved no less!  If you're lucky enough to own one of these things, each time you come upon it, BOOM!, you are automatically the most important person in your group. 

There are lots of off-road applications for personalized traffic cones, like saving the best place on the couch for an after-dinner viewing of Flight of the Conchords.  Or setting up a surprise "shot gun" maneuver for an early morning road trip, because sometimes you are always the last one out the door.

One thing: be prepared for jealous reactions to the use of your custom-made cone because no one likes it when someone flaunts a personalized item. Think, for example, of when you were little, and when you were exiting through the gift shop, and everyone found magnets and bracelets embossed with their names, except for Constance.  

Also, not to put too fine a point on it, but cone-fashioned items really do command a lot attention -- that's why party hats, megaphones and bras are all shaped like that.