Thursday, October 8, 2009

Funny Signs


Yesterday, while I was waiting for my teacher to open up the classroom, my friend noticed something inside the school that I had never seen before. At first I laughed, then I found it to be a cruel sick joke. It was a handicapped sign (the one's with a guy in a wheelchair) pointing to a set of stairs. It said elevator, indicating that one has to go down the stairs to use the elevator. How the hell can a person in a wheelchair go down the stairs? And secondly, why would he use the stairs going down, just to use the elevator to go back up? This made no sense to me at all. To make things even worse, there wasn't even an elevator at the bottom of the stairs. It just lead to an exit. The laughter ended when another person that was there at the time (and had seen the sign) said, "they don't care about them." I found this a bit true because if the school really cared, they would have removed that misleading sign.

While all of this was going on, it made me think of the time my brother and I were ridiculously bored. It was during the weekday, we both finished our homework, and we had no idea of what to do to entertain ourselves. Like all other bored children, we turned to the power of the internet. I don't know how we stumbled upon the subject, but we ended up googling funny/hilarious signs. What we found made us laugh like maniacal idiots. I think the pre-boredom state of mind made the pictures seem funnier than normal. These stupid pictures were funny because some seemed to contradict themselves like "0% OFF SELECT ITEMS TODAY." Others had sneaky messages at the bottom hidden in small lettering. Looking back at this occurence made me notice that I do really stupid things to keep myself entertained (but I'll save those for another blog post).

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