Funny signs. It’s like I’m naturally drawn to them!
On occasion I’m the only one who laughs…okay, often times I’m the only one who laughs. Can I help I’m the only one in my family with a good sense of humor?
My husband normally keeps walking and I’ll occasionally catch him shaking his head. My girls (8 & 5) just stare at me like I’ve lost my mind. I have, but still, I’d like someone to be on my team!
The plunger sign? Oh, mercy. I don’t know how long I stood laughing at that one. Tears, people. I had tears coming down my face!
The other pictures I’ve seen online, so I snagged them.
I’m not sure why signs always capture my attention. Usually grammar always stands out like a sore thumb…occupational hazard. I guess when I see a sign that’s funny, I like to give kudos to the department who opted to be funny and original – like the plunger people at Menards.
A local gas station was under construction during 9/11 and like many other businesses during that time they put up a God Bless America sign. HOWEVER, this particular business also wanted people to know they were still open during construction so their sign read: GOD BLESS AMERICA WE HAVE GAS
I wish I was kidding…I’m not. I also wish I had taken a picture, but I didn’t.
Anyway, I’d love to hear of some odd signs you’ve seen! Do signs capture your attention like mine? Or am I just the odd woman out here? It’s okay, I’m used to being the weird one in the family.
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The sign that said “Blind People Area” as a street sign. Two lane road, residential, no sidewalks. What?
0_0 Seriously?! I’m amazed…simply amazed.
Took my mom on a trip with my teenage daughters. At lunch time we passed an Italian restaurant sign, “Italians to go” Momma giggled and grinned and made a comment which escapes me at the moment. Later that night, when we were almost home we passed a Pizza restaurant “Large Cowboy $11” Momma once again comments, “Hmmm, I’ve never had a large cowboy”. My teenage daughters in the back seat lost the battle, “I love you, grandma!” was garbled with giggles. 😀 Happy memories!
Italians to go AND a Large Cowboy for only $11? Sounds like a nice area to live:) I like your mom!
While leaving the parking lot of the famed Hotel del Coronado (San Diego, CA) last fall, I snapped a pic of a “PEDRESTRIAN [sic] CROSSING” warning. If you haven’t discovered the Typo Eradication Advancement League on Facebook, check them out! (Not my page, but others’ finds often are priceless.)
Ooh! You mean there’s a whole FB page for this? I see another time suck in my future! LOL! Thanks for sharing;)
The TEAL guys even published a book on the subject (see http://greattypohunt.com/). The @PoorlyProofedNY Twitter account has a few goodies from time to time (there may be other active PoorlyProofed feeds). As to personal experiences: I work near the Capitol building in my state. A sign at one of the Capitol Park entrances contained an error. I think it was an “its” vs. “it’s” issue, but my memory of what occurred a decade ago may be faulty. In any event, the error was fixable … by a colleague wielding White-Out! He was lucky not to have been caught by the state police who patrol the grounds.
A few years ago, we were in a Buffalo-area high school for a volleyball tournament. In the cafeteria, there were hand-lettered signs proudly celebrating the senior class. My instant favorite was the one that said:
Class of 2008
These are the times to remeber
Oh, and you are not alone, Jules. I keep my photos of bad signage in my phone.
Bwahahaha! Obviously they didn’t “remeber” grade school spelling words:)
My daughter and I enjoy seeing them and laugh, while my husband and son are like yours – “whatever”. I don’t think to take pictures, but I’ve seen many. Of course, we also enjoy the wrongly-translated-from-another-language instruction sheets, menus, etc. 🙂
Yeah, my husband tends to just give me that blank stare. I can’t help it if he has no sense of humor! Doesn’t slow me or my laughter down:)
There was a sign posted at a park in Mexico where the stick figures were clearly being intimate. They added a heart over the heads so you couldn’t mistake their actions. You could NOT do that at this park. 🙂
Catherine, I love this! That’s too funny! Way to call out the “parkers.” Thanks for sharing;)
I’m always noticing things like that and it drives me crazy. I always mention it to my husband too. The ones that really get my laughing at neon signs when a letter is burned out. Recently the local Pep Boys warehouse sign has been reading P P Boys. LOL!
Haha! I love it! Thanks for sharing:)
I took a picture in a local store of a 3 foot-tall box that read MICHIGAN APPLES; it was full of cantaloups.
Another store had a sale on a line of “Carb Solutions” foods,only the sign maker put up 4 signs that read “CRAB Solutions”.
As I type this, a local Chinese restaurant,”China Wall” has had the middle lights on its sign burned out; it reads “CHI LL”!