"No food aloud"

[StormGlass]

I went into a small greengrocers shop today, and they had a sign next to the door saying "No food aloud".

WIBU to ask them why they're discriminating against noisy food?

I feel 'stabby' every time I see '10 items or less' at the supermarket. Only Marks Expensive gets it right. Does that make me a pedant?
on the other hand, when I had a little job at a food shop, one of my tasks was to arrange the fruit and veg nicely, and write out the price signs on bits of card, and it was the high spot of my day to indulge myself in the greengrocers' apostrophe, it was all banana's and orange's, I just couldn't resist

oooh discrete drives me wild!

A sign at our local garage reads ...

"MOT - whens your's due"

Even if it said allowed how do they manage without fruit or veg?

No blowing raspberries or banging coconuts then?

God, I loath that so much I'd be loathe to even step into the shop.

I only clicked on this to make a smart arse comment about loud food.

Don't I look like a cunt.

My mum once went into a shop, bought a loaf of bread and told the grocer he had an apostrope out of place in the sign outside.

He smiled and said, "yes you are the fifth person to say that, and they all bought something",

Last summer all our staff were in a local hotel/pub celebrating our fab OFSTED, and we were so incensed with the appalling spelling and punctuation on the menu blackboard we asked for chalk and corrected it! We had drunk rather too much by then!

Just for the picture it conjures up, I still love "This door is alarmed"

Please ensure you're child changes in the appropriate gender changing room.

In a school.

Celstia My grandpa's absolute favourtie thing to do is to write, 'Why? What happened?' underneath those signs. He keeps a packet of post-it-notes and a sharpie pen in his glovebox for precisely this purpose

Sign on the door of a local toy shop:

'Closed dew to staff sickness' :o

I must have mentioned this before... On my bus route home, in an upstairs shop window- local advertising for a signwriter.
IF YOU CAN READ THIS IT WORKS
JOE BLOGGS* SIGN'S

*name changed to protect the guilty.

Even if it said allowed how do they manage without fruit or veg? - That's a very good point, bronze .

The shop was well stocked with fruit, veg, and a variety of exciting preserves and biscuits.

So not only are they bad at spelling, they're also disobeying their own sign. Shocking, isn't it?

And WilsonFrickett , you can't rely on schools getting signs right.

A sixth form college near my home decided to be all fancy and use Roman numerals on the sign proclaiming the name of the college.

"(Name of town) IVth Form College"

It took them ages to figure out that IV is actually 4 in Roman numerals (it should have been VI...)

and one junior school gave us a powerpoint presentation that said,
'lesson's are fun!'

but best of all was the little notice scribbled in an arcade in a london market, saying,
'for car park, tourn right true market'

I saw a sign in a pub recently offering tarot readings and a physic evening...

You might want to avoid the refreshments if you go to the physic evening, NotGeoffVader - one meaning of 'physic' is a medicine, especially a purge or laxative

My DDs and 2 of their friends enjoyed playing "spot the grammar and spelling mistakes" on a children's trail at a local nature centre. At least one on every clue (3 sentences ish), and I think the record was 6.

I used to be amused when DD3's nursery would tell me she'd had a good lunch, and write that she'd eaten "whole moose".

This should be in Pedant's Corner. They'd have a ball!

Bakery in town proudly announces on a sign "Are cakes are the best"

Disabled toilet. So wrong on many levels.

I should like to see that Yourefired!