I was walking somewhere today, and alongside the street there was a sign with a stick figure guy walking across a street and there was a big red circle around him, with a cross through it. It basically was saying, “No jaywalking”. I LOVE the fact that people have to be told not to do certain things.
Now there are two types of signs, specific signs, and vague signs, or labels, whatever. The specific ones are things such as cigarette warnings which entail the following information such as, “This is highly toxic and may endanger your health, you may get cancer,” these signs basically tell you what will happen if you do these things. Vague signs on the other hand are much different, and more fun. Vague sign is like, “Beware of Dog” but they don’t give a reason, you know? Like, if they put, “Beware of dog if you don’t want to be bit” then it would work, but since it just says “Beware of Dog”, well why? What do I need to be afraid of the dog for? Is he a rapist, does he deal drugs? What? See, this leaves people open to hurt themselves. Not that anybody obeys even the specific ones anyways, but whatever. Another example of specific would have to be-and this one I just straight up frickin’ ADORE-”Warning: Toy may contain small parts that may be hazardous to your child.” And yet, they STILL decide to sell it. AND PEOPLE BUY IT! IO was also on a school bus once, and there was a sign at the top over the driver that said, “Warning! This bus is known to contain chemicals that may cause cancer.” Great, not only endanger OTHER PEOPLE’S CHILDREN, but don’t even TELL them. Smart. I also love, “No Tresspassing” and “Keep off Grass”. Who’s watching? HONESTLY? I know sometimes cameras are installed, but when you have murders and the shit going around, what cop is actually going to waste their time and resources looking for two jack offs who hopped a fence, ran around a few minutes, then left? I love the fact that somebody, ’cause I remember when it happened, the whole jaywalking thing. It only became a law sometime in the 2000’s or something, ya remember this? Yeah, and I wonder why anybody would jaywalk with OR without a sign. Who’s the genius who went, “Hmmm, well, there’s no crosswalk, but it’s right across the street, yeah those 15 cars made of 1000 tons of steel coming at me at unbelievable painful miles an hour doesn’t seem TOO life threatening. SURE!”
I think my favorite sign of all time has got to be, there was a sign on the side of some road, and it had a picture of a car going off a cliff into like, water, like an ocean or something. I guess the message was, “Don’t drive off the pier.” Yeah. Because you KNOW there’s some guy out with his wife in their car, just drivin’ along ya know, and he’s like, “Oh honey, this is so romantic, a weekend at the beach, we’ll have a picnic and HOLY SHIT WATER!!!!!”
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