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dvandom ([personal profile] dvandom) wrote2008-02-28 02:47 pm
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Sign seen over sink in Physics building men's room....

"Do not blow your nose into the sink!"
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[identity profile] z4nd4r.livejournal.com 2008-02-28 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Write "OK, THE WALL IT IS THEN" under it.

[identity profile] recharge138.livejournal.com 2008-02-28 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
(or, HOWEVER, BLOWING THE PHYSICS PROF OVER THE SINK IS A OK)

Better!

[identity profile] z4nd4r.livejournal.com 2008-02-29 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
"Do not blow your load into sink!"

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[identity profile] dvandom.livejournal.com 2008-02-29 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Unsurprisingly, some wit edited the sign to say exactly that. I took it down.

Re: Better!

[identity profile] z-gryphon.livejournal.com 2008-02-29 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a Chinese restaurant in Westboro, MA, where the late Derek Bacon and I used to go to lunch a lot when we worked at Leading Edge. They had one of those obligatory "must wash hands" signs in the bathroom, but the wording was a bit off and they never did get it quite right. Originally it said "EMPLOYEES MUST WASH HANDS BEFORE YOU RETURN TO WORK", but, as Derek pointed out, that was a bit ambiguous. Did it mean that the employees had to wash their hands before he and I could go back to work? Or possibly some entirely unrelated hands? And if so, how many hands? In either case, how long was that going to take, because we had to be back in the office by 1:30.

A little while after he made that observation (to me; he was too polite to mention it to the staff), we discovered that it had been changed. It now said "EMPLOYEES MUST WASH YOUR HANDS BEFORE YOU RETURN TO WORK". Derek and I agreed that that did clarify the situation, and though it represented quite a commitment to customer service, we still thought it might tend to be a little bit inconvenient, to say nothing of a trifle embarrassing. I mean, did they assume that we were so incompetent at handwashing that we needed the restaurant staff to help us with it, or what?
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[personal profile] liabrown 2008-02-29 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
And why not? :D



[identity profile] dvandom.livejournal.com 2008-02-29 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
Based on the handwriting of the sign, I'm guessing it was written by the woman who cleans the bathrooms on that floor.
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[personal profile] liabrown 2008-02-29 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I know, I was kidding. It's a pretty disgusting thing to do.

[identity profile] z-gryphon.livejournal.com 2008-02-29 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
The men's bathroom in the building where my father worked when I was a kid (the headquarters and central machine shop of our local paper mill's "engineering services" crew) had a neatly embossed plastic sign on the wall over the urinals that said:

PLEASE DON'T EAT THE BIG MINTS
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