Blocking out the scenery, breaking my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?
Many signs serve a purpose, but many serve no purpose at all. And then there are the signs that purport to serve a specific purpose, but actually serve a different purpose. Take, for example, this sign from the Hannaford Suites. In the interest of giving you the privacy you deserve, they will do your housekeeping only once a week, provided your stay with us is for at least seven nights. In the meantime, if you need towels, don't bother calling the front desk to ask for them - you have to take them to the front desk to exchange them. Trust me, this policy is not at all about your privacy.
Here is a good example of a sign that has a specific purpose, and there is no hidden agenda. This man is parched, and he is asking you to endow his Budweiser Fund. You gotta love honesty in advertising, and I would happily throw this guy a few bucks.
This one is from Robin's Ridge Golf Course, out in the middle of nowhere. It costs something like ten bucks to play 18 holes with cart, and you really do get what you pay for.
This is an honest sign - the path got very steep in front of this sign. But if they would just pave the path, it probably wouldn't be so slippery.
Another sign at Robin's Ridge that I did not photograph was one that said something like: Alcohol abuse is not allowed on the course. So I guess you can drink yourself right up to the point of abuse and stay within their guidelines. Just be careful when you come to the steep, unpaved cart path - and remember to go down slowly.
This sign has a purpose, and every donut shop should have one like it.
Some signs are informative and helpful.
And this sign should be thrown into a landfill. This was taken at the Safari Golf Course near Powell, Ohio. The "environmentally sensitive" claim has been used by many golf courses as an excuse not to mow anywhere outside the fairways. This particular "environmentally sensitive" area was a dried-up patch of ground where real grass won't grow, and for some reason, they don't want you to walk there. Note the ducks on the sign. Maybe the sign was meant for them, not us.
3 comments:
Thank God you are safe! I was beginning to think that Dorothy had buried you at the end of the yellow brick road in Wyndanwood! Interesting observations on signs. In that bar with the "Men/Women" sign do many women take up the offer to claim their free drinks and where exactly is the bar...just in case I return to the land of the free.
Hmmm...interesting post Sam. It made me think of that funny poem;
"I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree
Indeed, unless the bilboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all."
- Ogden Nash.
Thanks YP, I've just been very busy lately. I can't actually remember which bar had that sign, but it's somewhere around here and I'll make a note to remember it the next time I see it. I don't think many women take up the offer - I would have remembered that!
Katherine - Ogden Nash was a creative genius, and I wish I had thought of that poem when posting!
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