OBJECTS IN MIRROR APPEAR LARGER THAN THEY ACTUALLY ARE
I put that up at work one April Fool’s Day.
My old office used to have cavernous stalls (meaning the door was far away from the toilet) and the locking system on the doors was one of those push-button ones, which I never trusted.
I went into the bathroom one day to a sign saying “The lock doesn’t work, please knock first”. I have to wonder how many people were walked in in before it necessitated the sign.
Bummmmmer. But, you know, Connecticut… the flyover state of New England, we gotta grab what glory we can.
I guess I will throw in another mirror sign, the frosted letters across the tiny rearview mirror of my Cobra:
**OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE LOSING
**
Hey, it made a CHP laugh. No, I wasn’t getting a ticket, just hadn’t put my updated reg sticker on yet and it was an excuse to pull me over and chat.
I always think bathroom signs are funny when they’re in Braille and the sign is located over the door for the bathroom. Who’s going to be able to reed that?
I’ve seen that first one from **jtur88 **showing-up throughout SE Asia. I assumed it was to tell the residents how to use this new-style toilet.
This other one was in a chemical plant in Asia. It’s interesting that the dehydration scale values are in English while the rest of the sign is written in some alien script. The plant was producing sulfuric acid and perhaps there’s a greater need to monitor one’s personal hydration in environments like that.
I have one I picked up in an antique store, and have it over the toilet in the guest bathroom.
It has a Santa Fe logo and says “Do not flush while train is in station”. Because those older passenger cars don’t have tanks - they just dumped your crap down the center of the track.
Classic Don Martin. I loved that guy.
The only person on earth instantly associated with the phrase, “hinge-footed.”
Many years ago I was in Lagos, Nigeria on a business trip. I remember, the first sign I saw after getting off the airplane was this, on a building at the airport:
“DO NOT URINATE AGAINST THIS WALL”
I also liked the one at our hotel, next to the elevator doors:
“Do not interfere with the doors closing, as it damages the lift machinery”
I’m gonna need that sign. Toilet brush? In a public toilet? Is it for the toilet or the user?
In a handicap accessible stall? Probably a colostomy or ileostomy bag being emptied by someone sitting in a wheelchair and it went awry.
We have a couple unisex restrooms at work and IT was directed to make and post the following sign in each:
GUYS - IF YOU SPRINKLE
WHEN YOU TINKLE
BE NEAT
AND LIFT THE SEAT
On the chuckle scale it beats the daylights out of the urine-color-hydration chart posted everywhere else.
Ancient hipster. I associate it with people talking about the Google Groups Usenet access, because Google grabbed the DejaNews archives to populate its newsgroup databases. Hence Gooja, for the merger of Google and Deja.
It was a nice little service until Google crapped it up so bad you can’t even find a post by its MessageID anymore.
Most of the McDonald’s around here have signs that just say “Employees must wash hands”.
My reaction: “Uh, I’d like to wash my own hands, please.”
"Employees must return to work after washing their hands "
Ba-da-boom !
Back when I was in college I went out with friends to a nearby tavern. I had to use the ladies room and while sitting I saw a picture on the side of the stall. It was a small picture of a mostly naked man, with a little trapdoor over his genitals. Looked like a Tarzan loincloth. The sign said **“DO NOT RAISE THIS TRAPDOOR!!” **So of course I tried lifting it up.
As I did a buzzer sounded outside the ladies room, and I realized that damned loincloth was a tempting trap, so that everyone outside knew I’d tried to peek. I hadn’t been the only victim though, and there were others, as none of us women wanted to be the only one caught.
Version I’ve seen:
If you sprinkle when you tinkle,
Be a sweetie, wipe the seatie.
It was named for the benefactor named Johns Hopkins. Was that also supposed to be mind blowing? 
And yes, his name was Johns. It was his mother’s maiden name or something like that. Family name.
The one for the toilet, yes in a public toilet, and I’ve encountered toilet brushes in public or semi-public toilets (restaurants, offices, malls…) all over Western Europe. I realize they’re rare in the US.
The signs vary, but they’re basically cartoons similar to the one about not squatting on the toilet. There will be a toon using the brush in different ways with big NO!!!s, and finally one using it right with the local version of YES!!! Some have the NOs in different sizes and with different amount of exclamation marks depending on how wrong the action depicted is.
Years ago in Indonesia most toilets were flushed via a bucket of water, which you filled from the convenient cistern built, often a small concrete/tile tub like structure, called a mandy.
The cistern water was also used for bathing, using a scoop, and refilled from a faucet which fed into it.
Problem was white people were confused and thought it was a bathtub of weird dimensions, and would climb into the thing.
As a result, often when you’d go into the washroom there would be a sign saying “Do Not Get In Mandy!”.
Of course the other issue was persons naive enough to cimb into the mandy rarely knew that’s what it was called so didn’t understand the sign at all!
You came and you climbed in for bathing,
but I need you to stay out of Mandy.