"ON" parking. That means YOU!

[vivalostwages]

This was just recently painted--twice-- on the parking lot at a local elementary school:


http://s149.photobucket.com/albums/s74/VIVALOSTWAGES/?action=view&current=parktwo.jpg

http://s149.photobucket.com/albums/s74/VIVALOSTWAGES/?action=view&current=onpark.jpg

So...technically, if I park in the ON parking space, couldn't I defend myself by saying that the word NO was upside down and I didn't understand it. I mean, sure, if you look at it from other side, it says NO, but then the word PARKING is upside down.

Funny thing is, they managed to get it right in other places on the lot, and they didn't screw it up in the disabled spaces at all. Nor did they spell "unloading" incorrectly.

I think somebody needs to go back to loohcs.

[Sunspace]

Actually, it's perfectly clear. You can only park there if you're driving an On.

[bbs2k]

Wrong, it's the spot reserved for overnight parking.

[corkboard]

That's the sort of thing that just makes me shake my head in pity at the poor schmucks who painted it. Unbelievable.

[Mangetout]

Before anyone rushes in and shouts 'obvious photoshop!", can I just point out that the rectangular artefacts around the word 'ON' are caused by overspray of paint off the edge of the stencil, not cut-and-paste colour mismatches. They're also visible around the outline of the P in Parking.

[Beware of Doug]

There must be something about sign making/painting as a job that causes people to zone out and begin seeing the greeeat big letters they're putting down as just bricks in a wall, instead of units of meaning that must be in a set order.

I just passed a storefront in NYC yesterday with a fairly huge sign reading:
PAOLA POGGI
underneath which was a glass door with big stick-on letters reading:
POALA POGGI

[Sunspace]

I just passed a storefront in NYC yesterday with a fairly huge sign reading:
PAOLA POGGI
underneath which was a glass door with big stick-on letters reading:
POALA POGGIAnd the kicker is, both of those are wrong. The actual name of the store is "PAOLO POGGI"! :D

[Scarlett67]

This reminds me of a picture of a similar pavement-painting job that I saw online somewhere (maybe someone else has the time to go looking for it; I don't):

SOTP

[fishbicycle]

SOTPI saved that photo. What's really funny about it is that the paint crew guys are pictured standing around scratching their heads.

[Duke of Rat]

On Parking! On Donner! On Blitzen!

[St_Ides]

We have a "STOP AHAED" around here. I haven't stoppped to get a picture of it yet.

[Borborygmi]

On Parking! On Donner! On Blitzen!Now tow-away, tow-away, tow-away all!

[Enginerd]

Great googly moogly! (http://youtube.com/watch?v=hSAXLayoMKI)

[GrizzRich]

In the lot of our local post office, there was painted in the pavement, right in front of the mailbox...

YEILD

The error was fixed within a few days.

[Rick]

There must be something about sign making/painting as a job that causes people to zone out and begin seeing the greeeat big letters they're putting down as just bricks in a wall, instead of units of meaning that must be in a set order.

I just passed a storefront in NYC yesterday with a fairly huge sign reading:
PAOLA POGGI
underneath which was a glass door with big stick-on letters reading:
POALA POGGI
Two words Paint Fumes

[gotpasswords]

This (http://www.notisnet.org/links/bmup9.jpg) was done on a street in Richmond, CA, not far from here. Beware things that go BMUP in the night!

More info and a mention of a BINE LANE (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_km4465/is_200702/ai_n18679229) in Livermore.

[vivalostwages]

I have not yet contacted the school district in question. Maybe I should just let it go so everyone can have a bit of fun when school starts up again in a few weeks.

[Count Blucher]

I have not yet contacted the school district in question. Maybe I should just let it go so everyone can have a bit of fun when school starts up again in a few weeks.

That would be more productive than telling them to 'Park Off'... :D

[gigi]

I thought maybe it had to do with Head-in Parking Only

(Head) On Parking
(Head) On Parking
apply directly to the front-end

[Anastasaeon]

Two words Paint Fumes

Spot on. Er... did I mean No Stop?

Anyway, working with painters every day - while not all of them are this way, a very large percentage of them are very... er... how shall I put this? Sniffed more than their fair share of fumes in their lifetime*.

Most contractors, when calling in an order, will instruct us to write on the buckets "p-1", "p-2", or even "Wall 1" and "Wall 2", etc. When I asked what that was all about, one of the contractors told me, "Well, dear, the painters aren't very bright. We have to go into each project and write on the walls: Wall 1, Wall 2, etc on each wall. If we don't put which wall is to be painted on each can, they will just slap it on anywhere."

So what this comes down to is that it's basically colour-by-number on a large scale. If the instructions didn't include "Put the "N" first and the "O" second", chances are about 50/50 you're going to get "ON PARKING".

* - Please do note I am not, and never will say, ALL painters are like that. Its not true, and naturally, I know some very lovely painters who've been in it for a long, long time, and they're very bright and wonderful people. For the record, though, most of them, from dimmest to brightest, are friendly as all hell. Good folks, painters are. Maybe they can't all spell properly, but what the hell, my math blows.

[Wheeljack]

Older than dirt. (http://www.c-wilkie.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/jokes/pages/shcool.html)

[gigi]

Princeton, the original College of New Jersey, had a chuckle at the expense of the current one over this sign (http://www.tcnj.edu/~conjura/tcnj/tsc.html).

[RedSwinglineOne]

"Chi-tonw" tattoo (http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2007/03/chitonw.html)

[Rick]

Anastasaeon in the days before mandated fresh air systems for automotive painters, we used to have a saying: "Did you ever meet an old car painter? Didn't think so."
[hijack]
I have a friend that is a parole officer who works with juvenile offenders. I asked her once about her success rate with the kids. She said it was pretty good except for the one that huffed chemicals. She said that the chemicals make them stupid, and they like it too much. She went on to say she knew that most of them would die from brain damage, but the best she could hope for was that they did not hurt too many people trying to get money for their habit.
I thought about this for about 0.1 second and told her to get them jobs in auto body work.
She did this with a couple of kids, and they are the best employees ever. These guys are never late to work. :D Maybe not the brightest employee in the bunch, but they are always on time.[hijack]

[dwc1970]

There's a truck I often see parked on some lot off the Interstate with hand-painted lettering. It reads:

Roof Oling

[sturmhauke]

I once saw a sign warning that the street ahead was "FLOOED" with water.

[vivalostwages]

The tutoring center at my previous college campus ordered a new sign for their doorway. It came back spelled TURORING. Fortunately, they noticed the error immediately.

[cher3]

A local florist shop can apparently also supply you with ballons for your sweetie. Or so it's said on their front window for the last 10 years or so.

[stanger]

Sometime back in the early 1980's, there was a standard yellow roadsign just as you got off the highway to let you know there was a church up ahead. The sign said "CHRUCH". It remained that way for the best part of a year before it was finally fixed.

I''m sure the athiests found it quite amusing.

[Askance]

We had a laundromat near here that advertised their Dying Service for some time. Oddly enough they went out of business.

[Beware of Doug]

Two words Paint FumesNo kidding they affect Punctuation and Capitalization as well

[catsix]

I don't know if it's still there, but there used to be a sign on the side of the Parkway West inbound in Pittsburgh for the "Adopt a Highway" program that proudly declared that section of highway had been adopted by Western Phychiatric Hospital.

[Scarlett67]

Sometime back in the early 1980's, there was a standard yellow roadsign just as you got off the highway to let you know there was a church up ahead. The sign said "CHRUCH". It remained that way for the best part of a year before it was finally fixed.

I''m sure the athiests found it quite amusing.
*snort*

[stanger]

*snort*

????

:: checks dictionary (athiests/atheists) ::

:: sigh ::

Well, at least I know I could get a job as a sign painter in Texas.

[It's Not Rocket Surgery!]

On I-71/75 north heading towards Cincinnati, there is presently a changeable traffic sign on the side of the road, warning drivers of road work starting Augusy 3.

[Barrington]

Shop near here, called "Panache", had a sign up for several months saying "Panaché". No-one had noticed.

[Dr. Woo]

The gas station up the street from me is running a special on air conditioner service, complete with feon. Just a few doors farther on is a flooring place that advertises a product that includes a moister barrier. Moister than what, I ask?

It must be something about this particular street: the financial planner's sign said finacial planning for a couple of weeks. To their credit, they had it fixed pretty quickly.

[OtakuLoki]

I was in the NORVA area a few years ago, and passed by an office complex that gave their business name, and "Reality Brokers" as their business type.


I was so tempted to see how much a new reality would set me back.

[anyrose]

around the corner from where I used to live was a church with a big stained glass window facing the street. It was clear glass that was colored (or perhaps layered with coolored cellophane) and there was a sill or ledger inside at the bottom that often held diplays. One December, the church people decided to put "NOEL" in the window, but they wanted it to be read from the street. The turned the letters around so, standing outside looking in, they looked correct. But they did not reverse the spelling of the word, so for a week (until someone fixed it) it was known in the neighborhood as the church of LEON

[vivalostwages]

around the corner from where I used to live was a church with a big stained glass window facing the street. It was clear glass that was colored (or perhaps layered with coolored cellophane) and there was a sill or ledger inside at the bottom that often held diplays. One December, the church people decided to put "NOEL" in the window, but they wanted it to be read from the street. The turned the letters around so, standing outside looking in, they looked correct. But they did not reverse the spelling of the word, so for a week (until someone fixed it) it was known in the neighborhood as the church of LEON

[singing]"The first Leon, the angels did...."
Oh, never mind. I'm going to ruin every Christmas song with that word in it!

[MEBuckner]

I was in the NORVA area a few years ago, and passed by an office complex that gave their business name, and "Reality Brokers" as their business type.


I was so tempted to see how much a new reality would set me back.
I've got a wooden sign that was abandoned at a construction site advertising for a company called "Diversified Reality". Sometimes I've been tempted to call the number on the sign, but then I figure being under the yoke of the Nazi lizard-people or living in a world where Rome never fell (complete with gladiatorial games and mass crucifixions) would be kind of a steep price to pay for being rich and famous and dating supermodels.