I know, I know. I appreciate that the person who put up the sign was just saving people the pain of chunks of ice falling on their heads. There are also a fair amount of lawyers in the building, so the landlord was probably just being safe.
But seriously. This sign is awesome.
“Falling ice! Use other exits!”
How bootleg is that? Don’t go out this door! You might be impaled by a 3′ icicle. There is nothing we can do. Don’t even try. Abandon hope, ye who exit here.
I’ve got to start putting random signs on things.
On my cube wall (people accidentally walk into the corner a lot): “Please stop walking into me, it hurts.”
On windows: “Don’t do it, you have so much to live for.”
In the bathroom: “Watch for Pumas.”
What would you put anonymous signs on? Without being terribly profane or unkind, what would you say?
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I touched on something similar in a recent entry (http://uncommon.beaconhilllaw.com/2009/01/08/a-ba...on my own blog. I am definitely going to write about this and link to your post in an upcoming blog entry.
May I use your photo as well? (I am assuming you took it/are the copyright holder.)
Anyway, to answer your question…
You know those buttons that pedestrians are supposed to press to get the Walk sign to light up? I would put a sign on every one of those in the world that says: "Pressing me has no effect, but it's something to do while you wait."
I'll think more about this.
Sure, any photos without an "image credit" link at the bottom of the post are original. Do you think your button sign idea might cause people to despair of making a difference in the world and hurl themselves into traffic? … Probably not, but perhaps we should try this in a test environment first…
[...] My friend Leanne Heller recently took this picture and blogged about it, “translating†it like so: Don’t go out this door! You might be impaled by a 3′ icicle. There is nothing we can do. Don’t even try. Abandon hope, ye who exit here. [...]
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