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My favorite is the signs in Connecticut that say "Slow
Deaf Child." I always used to wonder why the deaf
children were incapable of running like the ones whose
ears worked ok.
--- wrote:
> 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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