It’s been awhile since a thread about oddball signs, etc. On this evening’s walk, I saw a hand-lettered sign attached to a power pole down the street: “Lost: Black suitcase full of womens’ clothes.” WTF? How do you lose a suitcase full of clothes?
Maybe it was dark.
Just yesterday someone put up about 10 or 15 signs (all alike) saying “Lost Kitty. Torti with white feet. Lost on July 2 at the Park and Ride. Reward.” Seems odd they waited nearly a month. Also odd as there is no Park and Ride in the immediate area. Also odd as the phone number is for a town about 10 miles away.
Months ago, during a heavy rain storm, I saw a guy driving down the freeway with his arm out the window, using a squeegee to clear his windshield. I wondered whether it was something he had to come up with on the fly that day, or if that was a long-term thing because how often do people keep squeegees in their cars?
As a child, when going on a long trip, my suitcase was ready and my Dad told me to put it behind the car, and he’d load it into the trunk (he was very particular about packing). When we got to our destination, my suitcase wasn’t in the car. We had backed over it (probably straddling it so as not to notice a bump) and driven off. A week later we came home to find it had been sliced open and my clothes scattered around, but it could in theory have been carried off or something.
I wonder if he asks himself for money at stoplights?
If you live in the north, you do; most ice scrapers have a squeegee gizmo as well.
Mine is in my vehicle year-round.
mmm
Outside the Arts Centre complex, recessed into the tall brick wall that runs alongside the gallery, are a small number of metal-doored openings with, I think, firefighting equipment in them, with red lettering stencilled on the front. I think the signs say something like “fire hose within” or “open in cse of emergency” or something like that.
Oh, except for this one
Someone has been plastering the area I live with blue “Matthew 25:10” or something like that signs. There is nothing else on the signs. One is even on the wall of the local post office about 10 feet above the entrance door. I would guess there are 50 or so of them now that I have seen.
Maybe they plastered their own area with signs and, after finding no luck for almost a month, expanded their search to surrounding areas?
This.
I love that.
In the basement of a campus building there was a short set of stairs leading down to a blank wall, where clearly there had once been a door that had been plastered over and painted. On that blank wall, someone had scrawled in tiny letters, “for the love of God, Montresor!”
Someone was paying attention in their American Lit class.
This was a list of thing you couldn’t bring on to a ferry boat. It’s seems to be little more then a random list of words.
I know they say this is somewhat common in other parts of the world, having only left the states once, I’d never seen it.
There is a STOP sign I stop at (duh) every so often that someone graffiti’d with spray paint FUC.
I have been ranting about this for months now. How do you pronounce FUC? Is it an acronym? Why hasn’t the spray painter returned to complete his effort? Poor work ethic?
Or it’s the Low Men in Yellow Coats…
Our local grocery has a sign on the wall “When you lift something heavy, bend at the knees.” Not so strange, except it’s posted on the wall right outisde the women’s bathroom.
What the hell do they think we are doing in there?
If it counts as a graffiti, then it’s my second favourite graffiti ever, after this
Stolen, I get. But this was clearly a “lost” poster. People lose all sorts of things: keys, credit card, wallet, money. I could even see leaving your wheeled suitcase next to a store counter somewhere and walking out without it. Maybe it fell off the top of someone’s car or something, but it just seemed odd to me.
Or it could be code, like in Hearts in Atlantis, and the creepy guys in the weird cars will be arriving soon.
What would be neat would be to get one of those binders like they used (may still do) in phone booths, with the chain and a phone book inside, only have a Bible in it. Hang that next to the graffiti