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Aibu to want to take a sharpie and add an "M"

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BeachyKeen · 17/06/2017 14:33

It's just one M, and it would make more sense

Aibu to want to take a sharpie and add an "M"
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twinkletoes99 · 17/06/2017 19:10

My old neighbourhood was called 'Vintage Place' but one morning we woke up to find this!! Found it funny for weeks!!! Grin

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VerityHabitat · 17/06/2017 19:12

This whole construction mends thing is getting out of hand. 😂

BalloonSlayer · 17/06/2017 19:22

We had an old people's home near us called "The Limes." An S was added so often it never really went away however often the signition was painted over. My friend's DH found it hysterical. I moved to a house that has a name ( not posh though, honestly ! ) and to my horror I found that it was originally called The Limes too but isn't any more, for obscure reason. Just as well as I know every Christmas card from friend of above DH would have come addressed to:

The Balloon Family
The Slimes
Our road
etc

Vq1970 · 17/06/2017 19:25

Found this store driving around America

Aibu to want to take a sharpie and add an "M"
VerityHabitat · 17/06/2017 19:26

There used to be a block of flats in Chelsea called "Menton Mansions" and someone took the letters off so it read "Men on Man"

CheeseAndOnionIcecream · 17/06/2017 19:59

Grin at Mistoffelees. Directions to 'Dave's house'.

BeachyKeen · 17/06/2017 20:05

It was only meant as a mildly funny play on words, as construction (building/repairing) makes things mended.
Therefore construction ends/mends

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RandomDent · 17/06/2017 20:06

Thrill house is possibly a Simpsons reference.

wanderings · 17/06/2017 20:56

In London there's a Penistone Road. No prizes for guessing what amendment was made!

The university I was at had lots of posters around which said things like:

"Lighting an empty office overnight wastes enough energy to boil enough water for 1000 cups of coffee. Give it a rest!"

On one of these, somebody had attached a piece of paper with a lot of handwritten notes, saying "Does it? Assume an office has two 40W strip lights, etc..."

leonardthelemming · 17/06/2017 21:10

I have been known to put a notice on my classroom door saying

"Please do not read this notice".

WhatABaklava · 17/06/2017 21:18

I liked this

Aibu to want to take a sharpie and add an "M"
originalbiglymavis · 17/06/2017 21:26

My favourite local street sign.

Aibu to want to take a sharpie and add an "M"
bedouincheek · 17/06/2017 21:38

We have an Exchange Street sign in town, which regularly becomes SExchange St. At 40+, it still makes me cackle.

MrsTerryPratchett · 17/06/2017 21:45

There's a sign for Vanalman Ave in Canada. I mean, seriously people, no one thought that was a bad idea. I'm sure Sharpies are sold out of every shop near the sign.

CasperGutman · 17/06/2017 22:00

When I used to live on Manchester, the sign on Canal Street in the city's Gay Village was very frequently vandalised to read "anal treat". By the time I moved away the sign had moved up the wall to at least 2nd floor level, but still the vandals got to it somehow!

GladAllOver · 17/06/2017 22:27

The signs for APSE HEATH on the Isle of Wight are regularly defaced.

Merakcat · 17/06/2017 22:55

I regularly drive through Jeremy Hunts constituency. During election campaigns blue signs are put up, his name is right at the top and a HUGE expanse of poster is left blank underneath. People then wonder why rude words (that rhyme) are written underneath...

ArtyKitty · 17/06/2017 23:05

In the middle of nowhere, on a single track road by a forest there's an 'passing place' sign, thats all green and brown with stuff growing on it. Someone's written in the dirt with their finger, 'wind'. It's magestic.

fartypantsmummy · 17/06/2017 23:16

The Sixmile River which runs through Antrim town regularly gets the i changed to an e on the signs

jenesuisplus · 18/06/2017 00:03

I don't think the road sign on the way to Uckfield has actually just said Uck in the last 5 years.

At least it's not called Untfield.

GinSwigmore · 18/06/2017 00:11

Construction mends....is that when you build bridges?

GreenTulips · 18/06/2017 00:20

The 'SLOW CHILDREN PLAYING'

Is this even politically correct these days?

IloveBanff · 18/06/2017 00:22

"I lived near a estuary where there was a public hard."

What's a public hard?

GreeboIsACutePussPuss · 18/06/2017 00:26

ha was just about to say about Uckfield, also Hucking, I don't think I've ever actually seen that sign without graffiti either.

ErrolTheDragon · 18/06/2017 00:26

A sign I felt was appropriate without modification was at an entrance to a university 'Changed priorities ahead'

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