Category: signs of our times

Classified Ad:

Amana Washer $100.
Owned By Clean Bachelor Who Seldom Washed.

Sign in an Acapulco Hotel: “The manager has personally passed all the water served here.” Sign in a Norwegian lounge: “Ladies are requested not to have children in the bar.” Sign on a door to a psychiatric ward: “Please do not disturb further.” Sign in an office: “We shoot every 3rd salesman, and the 2nd one just left.” Sign in a veterinary’s waiting room: “Be back in 5 minutes. Sit! Stay!”

Sign on the door of the maternity ward: “Push Push Push.” Sign at entrance of the IRS: “Watch your step.” Sign at the exit of the IRS: “Watch your mouth.” Sign in a bookstore: “We treat you write.” Sign on a front door: “Everyone on the premises is a vegetarian except the dog.”

in Kansas:

“Fire Danger, Do Not Drive Into Thick Smoke, Pull
Over”

Aw, the lawyers just make us say that, go right ahead if you want

Want Ad:

“For Sale: Antique Desk, suitable for lady with thick legs and large
drawers.”

On a radiator repair garage:

“Best place to take a leak.”

In a Tokyo Hotel:

Is forbitten to steal hotel towels please. If you
are not person to do such thing is please not to read notis.

Sign seen in London department store: “Bargain Basement Upstairs” Sign seen in the vicinity of Victoria Station: “Closed for official opening.” Sign in a Paris hotel elevator: “Please leave your values at the front desk.” Sign in a hotel in Athens: “Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the hours of 9 and 11 A.M. daily.”Sign in a Yugoslavian hotel: “The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of the chambermaid.”

A sign posted in Germany’s Black Forest:

It is strictly forbidden on
our black forest camping site that people of different sex, for
instance, men and women, live together in one tent unless they are
married with each other for that purpose.

In a New York drugstore: “We dispense with accuracy.”In the offices of a loan company: “Ask about our plans for owning your home.”In a New York medical building: “Mental Health Prevention Center”On a New York convalescent home: “For the sick and tired of the Episcopal Church.”On a Maine shop: “Our motto is to give our customers the lowest possible prices and workmanship.”

In Palm Beach Florida, one local business has posted a sign in their
window:

“We would rather do business with 1,000 terrorists than with one Jew.”

The business: Goldberg’s Funeral Home.

In a want ad:

“Girl wanted to assist magician in cutting-off-head illusion. Salary and
Blue Cross.”