It’s funny how there seem to be a few recurrent themes that have popped up along the way in my year long blog challenge… and one of them is “signs” cryptic, mis-spelled or just plain stupid, they seem to catch my attention.
Today though I was struck by their absence. Just when I really wanted one there were none to be seen.
We were off on a boating adventure about 30km or so upstream heading to a cafe for lunch. With no waterways map, just a printout of google earth to show us our progress, it was hard to know exactly how far we had travelled …or where on earth we were…(UNTIL I realised that we could use the GPS on our mobile phone ..but that’s another story).
It made me wonder why there are no ‘location’ markers anywhere en’route … you know like a suburb name or point of interest that would make it easier to get some bearings from the water….I mean, it’s not rocket science is it?
While I’m having a bit of a ‘sign whine’ …I can tell you that I had 2 encounters this week that would both fit the stupid category.
On Tuesday at the hospital I saw a regulation red STOP sign plastered on the side wall of a building. No walkway, no doorway just a blank wall that said STOP !!! – go figure (perhaps it’s a way of preventing hospital over-crowding).
The following day I was walking across a pedestrian crossing and noticed a yellow barricade… (the kind use at road-works sites) that had been placed square across the zebra stripes ..and the sign ~facing me said “beware of pedestrians”….mmm now we couldn’t have THEM on a crossing now could we ?
Finally I was reminded of one sign that has received a fair bit of exposure ..but still makes me smile
HUH ???
Wonder Years 