Unclear On The Concept
Posted on | September 4, 2008 at 9:27 pm | 9 Comments
Pet Peeve of the Day: Ummmm… dumb people? I went to my local recycle bins after arriving home today in order to drop off my papers, cans and bottles. I was greeted by this sign taped to one of the bins. The bins are in the parking lot of a church and I’m pretty sure the sign was put there by the church people. (Another sign on the bin next to it admonished people to keep the lids closed and told of alternate bin locations if these were full.) I love this. I love that people have to be told what not to put in the bins, even though there are signs on the bins saying what they will accept (unfortunately covered here by the new sign). Yet I know that people do have to be told over and over again this isn’t some sort of magic bin (or trash dumpster) that will accept anything they throw at it. Heck, on this very day, there was some weird sort of big homemade wooden birdhouse thing next to it. The person who left it didn’t even bother to tear it apart first. Many a time have I gone to these bins and found a piece of furniture or a TV (!) sitting next to them. And you just gotta think these people are slapping themselves on the back for being “green” and dropping off their TV for “recycling”. Or more likely, they just had to put the stuff somewhere and next to the recycle bin is as good a place as any. Sheesh, they might as well just dump their stuff in the street. At any rate, they’re going to ruin it for the rest of us if the bin ends up getting removed. And that produces a big Whine from me.
I’m not sure why I took a picture of the sign with my iPhone. Something about it just didn’t sit right with me. I like taking pictures of signs because I never know when I might need to make a blog entry out of one (which I think I mentioned somewhere before). At first, I thought the word “mattresses” isn’t spelled right. It is correct, though it’s one of those words that looks like it has way too many letters in it. It wasn’t until I started writing this blog entry and took a look at the picture again that I realized the word “sight” is used when it should be “site”. So there you have it – you can find a mistake on any sign with more than a few words if you look hard enough. And I do love the looking. And the mocking.
Latre.
Poignant Search Term Of The Day That Led To This Blog: “god is always watching cell phone karma”.
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9 Responses to “Unclear On The Concept”
September 4th, 2008 @ 9:38 pm
“Loose” is also incorrect (should be “lose”).
September 4th, 2008 @ 10:19 pm
Ack! Can’t believe I missed that.
September 4th, 2008 @ 11:38 pm
And should be “taped” instead of “tapped.”
September 4th, 2008 @ 11:50 pm
Well, that was me, not the sign. Fixed.
September 5th, 2008 @ 1:10 am
Also, if we’re being thorough, “pick up” should be “pick-up,” and there should only be one space after the period.
Always preofread, because you might something out.
September 5th, 2008 @ 3:19 am
Also, re: the title, it’s spelled “Nuclear” but pronounced “nuculer”
September 5th, 2008 @ 3:40 am
I’m impressed “non-recyclable” was rendered correctly. I think it’s by far the toughest word on the sign. I wonder if different people typed the first and second sentences.
September 5th, 2008 @ 4:38 pm
I saw a toilet dropped off next to the bins I used to frequent.
September 5th, 2008 @ 6:20 pm
Douglas Adams called this phenomenon an S.E.P., or Someone Else’s Problem. Once someone leaves something they shouldn’t, it becomes an S.E.P. It’s a whole lot easier than making the effort to properly dispose of something.