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In a message dated 9/7/2005 11:10:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
writes:
And here is a funny one. We took the kids through the McDonalds
drive-through the other night and saw one of the funniest signs we had
ever seen, second only to the Braille on the drive-through ATMs. Turns
out that McDonalds provides a picture menu with pictures of each of the
offerings for their customers who cannot read. The sign in the drive
through read "Picture menus available upon request." How would they
know if they don't know how to read???
That's funny.
It's not just drive-thru ATMs, all ATMs require sight to read the
instructions on the screen to know which programmable buttons to press.
In Charleston SC there is a fire station just outside the Byrnes Downs
subdivision.
In Florida the highway department puts signs saying only "Weight Restriction
Ahead" at the turn onto a road with a restricted bridge to warn truckers that
there is a bridge ahead with a weight restriction. However, without knowing
what weights are restricted a trucker has no idea whether he can cross the
bridge or not until he gets to the bridge and its restriction numbers sign, so the
first sign is completely useless.
Almost as dumb as the timeless question by schoolteachers - "Does everyone
understand the assignment?" How the hell would any of her students possibly
know the answer to that question?
Norm
S/V Bandersnatch
Lying Gloucester MA
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