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...

[sadnortherner]

This was always my favourite sign story

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7702913.stm

[musicposy]

Loving the dog in a litter bin!

[Campbell2016]

I liked the sign on a closed shop near me that said ' This shop is closed for the Unforseeable Future'

[RuggerHug]

The tone of this one makes me laugh every time.

[WhatchaMaCalllit]

I've found a few funny pictures on the internet over the years and have saved them so here you go.

[brodchengretchen]

Near me is a road sign saying 'Cats Eyes Removed'. Horribly cruel and maybe a missing apostrophe?

[ThumbWitchesAbroad]

Years ago, when I was on holiday in Australia (long before I moved here) I saw a great sign that said "Trespassers can Fuck OFF!" Sadly didn't get a photo of it though :(

[RustyBear]

This is my favourite- spotted by DD in Reading

[BatteryOperatedBoyfriend]

At our local soft play they advise that painkillers are available at reception. Still not sure they could dull the pain!

[WideWoman]

My favourite was outside a clothes shop - ^This is NOT a charity shop. Please do not leave bags of clothes outside the shop".

[RuggerHug]

I promise I won't post any more after these few. But just a sampling of how serious we take things here..

[MustBeThursday]

This one was a few years ago on the inside of a glass-fronted shop.

On the same vein as not using toasters in the bath, DH bought an electric blanket some time back, the instructions very helpfully advised that it was machine washable - but should be unplugged from power source before washing.

[FruStefanOla]

Love the Welsh translation sign, sadnortherner! Here is another one in a similar vein www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-15595548.

The stapled Durex made me chortle, What!

Our local pub has had a few boo-boos over the years. "Picked Eggs", instead of Pickled Eggs - I suspect the young member of staff who'd been asked to write the sign didn't know what a pickled egg was. "Bag Pipper" instead of Bag Piper.

But the funniest was unintentionally because of a cultural difference. The pub was doing a promotion for something or other (I forget), but it was a free drink, on a particular day, for anyone who wore a "bow tie and suspenders". Much hilarity and head scratching, until one of us asked the Australian landlord what he meant. He stuck his thumbs out in the manner of pulling the straps of an invisible pair of braces (a la Chas & Dave), so we told him that in the UK suspenders are what women wear to hold their stockings up and that the British version of the Australian word suspenders is braces. So the sign was changed to "bracers", until someone rubbed out the 'r', so it read "brace s".

[Muskey]

A sign in our school says small children drive slowly. I am surprised they can reach the pedals but hey ho.

[BikeRunSki]

Not so much the words, as the style. A very nice looking, calm, luxurious, feminine, lovely looking beauty salon/spa has recently opened nearby. Its's all creams and gold.,the sandwhich board outside promoted some of their therapies in lovely curly writing "Hot Stone Massage, Indian Head Massage, etc...., finishing of with "Back, sack and crack". It kind of lowers the tone

[FartyTette]

Not very PC but made me laugh! Sign warning of a hump back bridge near Reading

[APotterWithAHappyAtmosphere]

My favourite was a biro-written sign in the window of a hairdressers' in Leeds (next to a fish & chip shop with a bus stop outside) that said:

PLEASE DO NOT LEAN AGAINST OUR WINDOW EATING FISH AND CHIPS AS IT MAKES US VERY HUNGRY

[IlPorcupinoNilSodomyEst]

There's a steep and winding road somewhere in Ireland (can't remember where!) that has 'SLOW' painted on the road ... After the next corner it says 'SLOWER' ...next corner 'EVEN SLOWER'

[SqueegyBeckinheim]

There's a mechanic's garage near me with a sign outside proclaiming that they're VAG Specialists, makes me snigger. MOT and smear test while you wait maybe?

[Greengagesummer]

There's one on the north circular which really puzzled me when I first saw it - wasn't a driver -

CROSS WINDS

Makes me smile every time I see it.

[shinynewusername]

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

Whereas the Oxford Co-op used to have a sign saying "Please do not ask for change". Probably the university motto

[VioletVaccine]

Advice and directions given in just 3 words, very concise!

[GhettoFabulous]

There's a ladies' toilet in a governmental office I work in occasionally which has a sign above the sink: This sink is for the disposal of liquids only. I'm sensing a backstory.

An empty shop unit in a mini arcade, with a hand written sign posted by the neighbouring shop: No, we don't know what it's going to be either, so stop asking.

And lastly, in a hospital I frequent on buisiness: PMT Training centre. I don't know what it is, but I snigger every time.

[MangoMoon]

I like the 'Mud On Road' warning signs.

I live in hope that one day I'll turn the corner and British Glam-Rock band Mud will be there performing Tiger Feet.

[theredjellybean]

thank you so much mumsnetters...i am having a bad week and this thread has made me laugh out loud...lots !