Category: signs of our times

At a Santa Fe gas station:

“We will sell gasoline to anyone in a glass container.”

In Admire, Kansas:

“Admire Interchange”

Wow, that’s some interchange!

Sign on music teachers’ door: “Out Chopin.” Sign at the electic company: “We would be delighted if you send in your bill. However, if you don’t, you will be.”Sign in beauty shop window: “Dye now!” Sign on a garbage truck: “We’ve got what it takes to take what you’ve got.” Sign at a computer store: “Out for a quick byte.”

Classified Ad:

Found: Dirty White Dog
Looks Like A Rat.
Been Out Awhile..
Better Be Reward

In a department store:

“Stock up and save!
Limit one per customer.”

Two signs from a Majorcan shop entrance:

English well talking.

Here speeching American.

On a bumper sticker:

Hang up and drive.

Classified Ad:

Wedding Gown For Sale
Only Worn Once, By Mistake

Sign outside a new town hall which was to be opened by the Prince of Wales: THE TOWN HALL IS CLOSED UNTIL OPENING. IT WILL REMAIN CLOSED AFTER BEING OPENED. OPEN TOMORROW. Seen at the side of a Sussex road: SLOW CATTLE CROSSING. NO OVERTAKING FOR THE NEXT 100 YRS. Outside a disco: SMARTS IS THE MOST EXCLUSIVE DISCO IN TOWN. EVERYONE WELCOME Sign warning of quicksand: QUICKSAND. ANY PERSON PASSING THIS POINT WILL BE DROWNED. BY ORDER OF THE DISTRICT COUNCIL. Notice sent to residents of a Whiltshire parish: DUE TO INCREASING PROBLEMS WITH LETTER LOUTS AND VANDALS WE MUST ASK ANYONE WITH RELATIVES BURIED IN THE GRAVEYARD TO DO THEIR BEST TO KEEP THEM IN ORDER

These are supposedly actual signs that have appeared at various locations.Sign in a Rome laundry: “Ladies, leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a good time.Sign in the window of a Swedish furrier: “Fur coats made for ladies from their own skin.” Sign on the box of a clockwork toy made in Hong Kong: “Guaranteed to work throughout its useful life.” Detour sign in Kobe, Japan: “Stop: Drive Sideways.”

Apparently, somewhere in England in an open field otherwise
untouched by human presence, there is a sign that says,

“Do not throw stones at this sign.”

At my University’s Student center Bathrooms: “If you see four feet instead of two under the bathroom door, please notify it immediately to the University Police.” In the hallway of a High School in New Jersey “Our School: Commitment, Responsibility, Attitude, Persistance.” Road sign in Roosevelt, Utah: “Rest Area Next Right” – the next right leads a person right into to a cemetery. A sign in the local opportunity shop says, “If your going to steal, then smile for the camera.”