Chuckle Photography: Sign Pondering

Signs direct.

Signs alert.

Signs inform.

I appreciate the worthy sign goals of directing, alerting, and informing. However, I especially enjoy the unintentional humor that sometimes occurs when pondering.

Here’s my take or my mistake on signs:

While waiting outside the storage area of the Cusco, Peru hotel where I stayed, I wondered how this kind fellow traveler had been singled out as a supremely disagreeable character.

 

Further investigation resolved my perplexity.

 

During an extensive bicycle ride in South Haven, Michigan my good-natured friend paused beside this sign. Although hot and tired she hadn’t been at all short tempered, but the sign had been short one “d”.

 

I viewed this sign outside a Colorado hotel elevator and thought this fellow promoted too leisurely a method in exiting a burning building.

 

 

Increased urgency, as communicated in the Lisbon, Portugal bathroom sign, would have been more appropriate.

 

I applauded creative use of synonyms on this sign, but wondered if there had been a Highway Council debate coupled with thesaurus usage before the substitution.

 

 

Even straightforward signs allowed for a little fun.

 

 

No pondering about these signs- spontaneity struck!

(See July 12, 2017 Post “Make Fully Dressed Spontaneous Pole Dancing The Next Phenomenon”.)