If I'm lucky, I'll have the means immediately, and the mind to actually pull out the thing and use it and capture the moment because I know I'll never remember to do it again later, or to write it down, or even what the thing was in the first place.
Generally the 'means' would be my phone.
Which is why I usually only get pictures of signs and stuff. But sometimes I overhear people saying stupid things...like "The general rule of thumb..." *ahem* overkill? I think yes. And just so you know, since I am a person as well... sometimes it's me. I might be judgy, but I am equal opportunity judgy.
On the broken door of a gas station somewhere:
Gee, and here I thought it was wide open. However, I see no mention of it being broken, and this seems a bit like a challenge to me. If the intention was to get people to not open the door, they could have just said, "This door is broken" or, "Use other door." Unless this was some really stupid psychology test or something. Regardless, I really wanted to open that door just to prove myself better than the sign.
A sign at the St. Louis Zoo for some reptile that I can't remember:
I remember now! It's a false gharial. I took this two or three years ago, and it's still like this as of last week. This is a top-notch zoo, and people see this everyday. I can't have been the only one to notice, right?
At my High School for the election:
This can only be useful for a few people who have other people to run in and request for them. Otherwise, they're already inside. Just vote there.
A local gas station:
This is just a classic nit picky thing, but it's still something that shouldn't happen. Same with 'PIN number,' and 'ACT/SAT test.' You don't need all those words, people.
Inside a Target, on the 'Entrance' door:
Possibly the only fault I've ever found in a Target.
I don't think they'll ever finish this parking lot/road thing:
This seems kind of like a challenge too...
More typos:
And common sense:
Okay, two faults for Target. But really, I think this one's more on the customers than the store. They're the ones who made this necessary.
*Mom* Remember when they tore down the McDonald's (sadly they built a "new and improved" McDonald's) and they didn't take down the "This McDonald's restaurant is currently closed" right away? We were so pissed that we didn't manage to get a photo of that sign on a lot full of rubble.
And then there's this one. The thing is, some supposedly educated businessperson hired another allegedly educated businessperson to make a sign for them. Somehow they managed to come up with a sign that almost has correct punctuation. Then one of them got paid and the other one posted this piece of crap outside their place of business.........
.....and people go to them and trust them with their money! Please note....this sign has hung there for quite some time. See how the letters and numbers are peeling off? I kind of want to get a ladder and flip the r and the apostrophe myself. But it's near the police station.
I remember when the yearbooks at school came out and they hung signs all over the place exclaiming "Yearbook's are here!" and your brother carried a Sharpie with him and crossed out the extraneous apostrophe every time he encountered one. And when his graduation announcement came and had the same problem and I e-mailed the teacher(s) responsible and all they said was "It's not OUR fault!" so I then had to e-mail the principal who issued a recall and took the hell care of the problem but it pissed off a lot of the parents because they didn't see a problem with sending an announcement lauding their child's academic achievement with a flippin' TYPO in it. The funny part? 445 kids in that class and one person brought up the mistake in the announcement.
So we do get exasperated by stupidity, because people are stupid. And what are we? We are people.
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