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signs

Electric Scooters and their Warnings: A Guest Post by Kim Wolfinbarger

by Anne McLaughlin
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Electric shopping carts are common in large grocery stores. Essential for users with mobility impairments, they are also helpful for pregnant women, elderly shoppers, and other who have trouble walking long distances.
A few months ago, my grandfather overturned such a cart in a parking lot and broke his hip. Interested in what might have caused the accident, I examined a [...]

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Watch out for Un-Equalsteppings!

by Richard Pak

Reader Joe C. sent in this unusual warning on a door.
It was on the entry door to one of the screens at a local cinema. The un-equalsteppings just turned out to be a slope! Not sure why they couldn’t of just told me it was a slope.

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It’s Right There, Right on your Left

by Anne McLaughlin

Found this sign at a rock climbing gym, then watched three groups of people do the opposite of what the sign requests, despite reading it.

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Parking garage ticket machine warning

by Richard Pak

I’m at the airport waiting to board a flight.  Here is a funny warning message that greeted me on the parking garage ticket-dispensing machine:

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Vigilante Warnings

by Anne McLaughlin

I snapped this picture near NCSU today. Looks like the garbage workers or apartment dwellers decided to take matters into their own hands.

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You are what you eat (And I’m about a B-)

by Anne McLaughlin

Like many people, I use heuristics when choosing between food products. My algorithm goes something like this:

What’s the lowest unit price? 25 cents per ounce vs. 40 cents per ounce?
Pick up the lowest
Look at the saturated fat RDI
If reasonable, look at ingredients
Is list too long to read in 3 seconds?
If yes, pick up next cheapest item for comparison.
If no, look [...]

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Processing negatives

by Anne McLaughlin

Following signs to the Raleigh SPCA, we took a wrong turn.
From the looks of things, we were not the first to do so.

Of course, you only see these signs once you are on the wrong property. They might have avoided all troubles by putting a sign along the way that pointed to the SPCA.

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