Drop your pants here.
Ha!
I was shopping at a clothing store once and saw a sign by the cash register that said, “All merchandise must be returned within 30 days.”
“Well, why even bother buying it, then?” I thought, and left.
In the hot dog stand business, many vendors buy their hot dog buns from a bakery called MaryAnne’s. The stand I worked at used to have a sign that said, “Mary Ann has nice buns” ::giggle giggle::
Once I was at Macy’s and saw a sign that said “Boot Sale! Buy one get one free!” and I thought…“Isn’t that how they’re usually sold?”
In Murray, Utah there is a dry cleaning place right next to a Conoco on State Street, anyway on one of their signs outside, listing the items they can clean is marked in large foot-and-a-half high letters “Wedding Dresse” Now this is a painted sign so no letters fell off, and there is no damage to the sign, i am assuming that they just ran out of space and figured “they can deduce it from that”
Sign at a local mall when I was a kid:
“Ears pierced while you wait”
Shaky Jake
blush
Sign at the cash register at a 7-11 near my house:
Express lane, 187 items or less.
I always wanted to ask where do you go if you have 188 items (there is only one cash register in the store)
“No shirt, no shoes, no service”
Um, ok so technically speaking we can enter wearing no pants or underwear! LOL
There’s a sign making place by my house. And their sign says something that makes me giggle (even though, at 22, I should be too old for this)
Signs. Service. Erection.
The Llama and I had a hard laugh at the names of a couple of restaurants in China Town:
Ocean Seafood Oooh, my that’s my favorite kind of seafood!
OK Seafood Restaurant “So, how’s the food here?” “Ehh, it’s okay.”
Meanwhile, I’ve started taking pictures of these kinds of silly signs. Shameless PlugThey’re at my photo album website, http://www.picturetrail.com/laurarae
I also have a book of sign gaffs…my favorite is actually misspelled graffiti: “I LOVE YOU SWEATHEART!”
Ample Paking from your site. Is that in Boston, by any chance?
Horse racing…is that where your username comes from?
And “Ocean Seafood” brings up a question. What is freshwater rainbow trout, or catfish called? Riverfood?
Nice photos.
Why so much trouble trying to stop people from copying the photos to their hard disks? I guess it might stop a few but most people would know to find them in the temporary internet files folder or directly on the server.
http://pic1.picturetrail.com/VOL3/73667/117157/675086.jpg
At Bertha’s seafood restaurant in Fells Point, Baltimore: “Eat Bertha’s Mussels”
At a marina restaurant in Virginia: “You can beat our prices but you can’t beat our meat”
Outside a kebab shop in London:
CHICKEN DONOR, £2.00
In San Francisco I once saw (and photographed!) this sign:
EMBARCADERO CONSTRUCTION
PLEASE ADHERE TO SIGNS AND FLAGMAN
Can’t I just obey the signs and flagman without being stuck to them? 
And this sign (for a movie that never clicked) on a local marquee:
JAMES GARNER IN
TANK
What was he doing there?
First a little background. Back when I lived in Oklahoma, Automobile Tag Agencies and Drivers License places were privately owned businesses. In my hometown in Shattuck, Ok, (Pop. 1100) the guy that owned the local tag agency also owned a liquor store. He ran both businesses out of the same building. It always cracked me up that one side of the sign advertised for license renewals and the otherside advertised for booze. One stop shopping for the drunk driver with an expired tag.
Movie Theater Marquee:
101 DALMATIANS
THE HOWLING
Now there’s a double feature!
Movie marquee:
101 DALMATIANS
DYING YOUNG
And my favorite, from the sign book I mentioned previously:
THE FLY
GODS MUST BE CRAZY
ALIENS
You know, you never can trust those fly gods.