To find this sign hilarious?

[ILoveSeverusSnape]

There is a sign on the door of my GP surgery that says:
"Please do not post samples through the letterbox".




I just keep wondering if there's a story behind it? Presumably someone has actually posted urine/stool samples through after hours (who does that?). Has someone trodden in them?
Or perhaps someone posted a dog turd through (one only needs to read the reviews to know which GP that'd be aimed at...) and they are being super polite or naive referring to it as a "sample"?

Is it just me? I had to sit there in the waiting room trying not to laugh out loud, which made it worse...

[tectonicplates]

I think a lot of urine samples in particular can only tested if it's been done the same morning. If it's been left overnight, the tests won't work.

[LetThereBeCupcakes]

Our local garage has a sign that says "OAP wash £3.50". I'm dying to take MIL down there and tell them I'll pick her up in an hour!

[Igneococcus]

I'm sure it was a MNetter who said that her mother carries a marker pen with her and writes "say something reassuring" onto "This door is alarmed" signs, or am I making this up?

[AintNobodyHereButUsKittens]

Bar attached to local cinema.

[BlueMoonRising]

At a ferry terminal's public convenience:

'Please do not park in toilets'

[Justsaynonow]

Seen in local shopping mall:
"Washrooms closed. Sorry for the incontinence"
(I think they were aiming for "inconvenience")

[PestilentialCat]

Road sign near where I used to live "Heavy Plant Crossing" - I must have driven past a hundred times & never saw a triffid

[PestilentialCat]

sorry for the incontinence - arf

[MadHattersWineParty]

There's a sign in the garden of someone's house along the Norfolk Broads, and it gets a lot of boat traffic going past. There's a sign that just says:

'Please do not throw rocks at this sign'

[Wheresthattomoibabber]

There was a sign in the polling station yesterday that said "this cafe sign should be left plugged in at all times " next to an unplugged plug.

[Wheresthattomoibabber]

There's a sign at work that says "for everyone's safety please do not leave this toaster unattended". I imagine they mean "while in use" but it makes me laugh every day.

[horizontilting]

The very optimistic parking machines at our shopping centre when you insert money: CHANGE IS POSSIBLE.

[wanderings]

I saw a sign recently that said "This gate must be kept shut at ALL times" and couldn't help wondering why they didn't just get a fence thus saving money on a hinge and catch

I remember thinking the same at infant school about doors which said "Fire door keep shut". I thought this meant it couldn't be opened at all. It made as much sense as teachers who cheerfully said "class three nearly got burnt" during a fire drill.

[Footle]

I took this in Appleby the other day. Quite worrying.

[Footle]

I also find 'very hot water' warnings in public loos bizarre. Do you want me to wash my hands or not ?

[FeckOfffCup]

My friend sent me a picture of a sign in her office toilets. It read:

^Ladies,
These toilets are a shared facility and in the interest of the comfort of all users please remember to:

• Flush the toilet
• Wipe the seat
• Pick up any used paper and put it in the toilet or the bin
• DO NOT pick your nose and wipe it on the walls. There is toilet paper right next to you - use it^

The nose picking problem was obviously bad enough to warrant a sign!!^^

[BettySpaghettiHasLostHerHead]

This is my favourite (look carefully)

[Fitzsimmons]

When I was at university there was a sign that said "School of Nursing and Midwifery. Deliveries At Rear Of Building."

[hermionesheldonawinchester]

There is a sign on the back of a breakwater, about 200 meters before the the high tide line, that reads: PLEASE NO DIVING FROM THIS POINT. I'm not sure who would dive directly into pebbles, but hey!

[Andrewofgg]

At a launderette years ago:

Free soap, bleach and dye

WEDNESDAY for blankets
THURSDAY for old age pensioners

[NynaevesSister]

On holiday, walking over a bridge near a beauty spot with a sign that said "If you jump off this bridge you will die".

I assume they meant that as a warning and not a public service announcement for suicides.

[littledrummergirl]

Our local garage has a sign that says "OAP wash £3.50". I'm dying to take MIL down there and tell them I'll pick her up in an hour!

My mil would love this

[Pandakitchen]

Sign on a work vacuum cleaner "do not hoover liquid"

[OTheHugeManatee]

My favourite song ever was outside a church in the Deep South in America. It said:

BLESSED IS HE WHO BELIEVES WITHOUT A SIGN.

[Andrewofgg]

NyNaevesSister So if you don't jump you will live forever?

Don't anyone tell the life insurance companies about that bridge!