Signs

A friend of mine was visiting from NYC and once in a while he would take a picture of some random sign that he saw and found humorous. Now that I've got a camera on my Palm phone, I can take a picture anytime. Whenever a funny sign crosses my transom, I take a picture and think of my friend.

As always, click on the photo for a better view.

This is the first sign I ran across. I guess it explains away the mystery when I say that I found it in the LSU Vet Clinic lobby. But running across this sign brightened my otherwise excruciatingly long wait for my cat to be released. I do wonder how many times people had to be told this before somebody finally got fed up enough to make the sign. If I worked there, I would have let the animals drink the water and quietly snicker everytime someone drank from it.

I wondered if a similar sign would be found in the bathroom: DO NOT LET YOUR CAT USE THIS TOILET!

Instead, I found this sign:

I know from my Native American heritage that we should always leave things as we found it. It doesn't just apply to when you go camping in the woods.

There's something existential about it.

But now I want to go back with a big black marker and scrawl a "MIKE WAUGH WUZ HERE" on the wall.

I actually found this message in the communications closet of one of the branch libraries I work at. And believe it or not, when I walked in, I had to clear a spider web from my face. And the lights were on, which makes me think the spiders have become braver.

Can anyone do some research and tell me if leaving a light on will actually keep away spiders?

Later I made a bad joke about how the spiders in the same room with the servers contribute to the World Wide Web. Except I accidentally said "Internet", which made the joke even stupider.

And then today I found this surreal piece of tape on my office floor:

You read it right: Frost Barber.

I later found out what it meant, but I think I'll keep it to myself.

An inspiration later hit me to randomly place "Do Not Remove" signs all over the place and see how long the signs stay there. Even better yet would be to put some completely random words after the "Do Not Disturb" like

DO NOT DISTURB --Charlie
DO NOT DISTURB --Waugh's Grand Willoughby of Kent
Do NOT DISTURB --The fish are out
Do NOT DISTURB --by order of the cheese

And so forth.