pix from the potty

    I attended a meeting yesterday in The Land of Idiotic Drivers. I finally, after several years of going to this place, remembered to bring my camera (thanks, Cat!) so that I could share this sign from the Ladies'. Obviously, I understand the sentiment behind it. It's the execution that slays me. First, there is a copy of the sign on the inside of each stall door, so one is literally faced with this thing each and every time one uses the facilities. (It always makes me laugh, though I've learned over time that I ought not to laugh aloud.) Second, why is the whole damned thing underlined? Isn't underlining typically used for emphasis? How much emphasis is there, really, when the whole damned thing is underlined? Third, why does it say "NOTICE" at the top? Would one fail to notice the sign, were it not for that word, placed right there? Fourth (and my personal favorite), why is "FEMININE" in italics--and, for that matter, why does "FEMININE" have to appear on the sign at all? Are there "masculine" hygiene products that routinely stop up toilets? [Really?] Fifth, had they left "USE THE RECEPTACLE" off the bottom of the sign, would the scofflaws have simply dropped their feminine hygiene products onto the floor? My point: are they assuming that the miscreants are complete idiots? Sixth, why are there three exclamation points after the receptacle line? Is that truly the most important message on the sign? I really don't think so. And finally, why is there a picture of a smiling, sprinting plumber on the sign? If he's been summoned to fish the aforementioned products out of the toiletry system at good ole' NILS/PILS-R-ford, he's unlikely to be smiling sunnily and running--unless in the opposite direction.
    Well. Anyway. That's the sign, and my take on it. Hope it brought back some memories for The Cat (and anyone else who might be viewing, invited). Now, back to the salt mines....