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Today I couldn't help myself...

62 replies

moleymo · 07/02/2008 20:18

Whilst paying for my shopping at the self serve checkouts in a well known supermarket I noticed some homemade signs that said 'This machine does not except coupons or vouchers'.

I just couldn't let it go by and asked to see the manager and explained that the signs were wrong and did they think they could replace with the correct word!
He just looked at me rather blankly

I shall be returning in a few days to see if they have been changed!

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ShinyHappyPeopleHoldingHands · 11/02/2008 08:47

There is a shop in my town which sells truly dreadful clothes like those fluffy jackets with dogs etc on... and on the shop front is their permanent shop front sign which proudly declares the name of the shop.. "Bargin Corner".

Sigh. Sigh. Sigh.

Flier · 11/02/2008 08:51

I, in the past, have thought about taking a pen in with me and correcting it

ShinyHappyPeopleHoldingHands · 11/02/2008 08:55

Someone at my gym did Flier, thank God. Which is a good thing as I was seriously thinking of stealing a marker pen off the desk as I came past and correcting it on the white board myself.

I used to sit on the exercise bike and gaze with despair as the sign which said "Will the following people please call at the desk - don't worry your not in trouble." Next time I went someone had put "'e at the end of your, very blackly indeed. T'was such a relief.

I really wish these things didn't bother me so much. I just think if you're going to make (or even write) a sign on notice, you should take the necessary steps to get it right.

MsHighwater · 11/02/2008 23:00

SHPHH, I hope they put an apostrophe in, too!

bookwormmum · 11/02/2008 23:09

I don't mind people mis-spelling things on boards so much but when they've been produced on pcs, there really is no excuse for piss-poor spelling. Most pcs have spell-checkers these days and you can even run a grammar check if you tweak it.

Hell, you can even get a count of the passive words in your text. Although incorrectly-spelt graffitti does bug me. I want to correct it .

K20 · 11/02/2008 23:29

lol at sign I spied at a local school fate

In the beer tent

Larger £xxx

grrr and I'm not a pendant

hipposcotamus · 11/02/2008 23:30

I go in to work every Monday and correct the "weekly budjet" that my assistant has written on the white board!

fletchaaarr · 11/02/2008 23:33

My local pub has a sign up for...

"Al'a'carte"

Hmmmmmmmmmm

smartiejake · 11/02/2008 23:37

I drive past a farm shop every morning with a sign saying "pansy's for sale" It takes all my strength not to screech to a halt and get out my red pen. They also sell peach's and potatoe seedlings and tomatoe plants there.

I also had to laugh at another sign I saw there which threatened "Theif's will be prosecuted."

overthehill · 11/02/2008 23:37

There's a hairdresser's near us that had a huge piece of embossed glass saying 'hair extentions', which made me cringe every time I went past, but I noticed recently that it'd been changed to the correct spelling - at vast expense, no doubt, as it was another piece of embossed glass.

My ds(8) has a habit of writing things such as 'potato's', and I wonder how any offspring of mine could ever dare produce such an aberration!

MotherFunk · 11/02/2008 23:37

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Judd · 11/02/2008 23:44

Our gym once put up a sign saying "The spin class tonight at 7pm has been cancelled. We apologise for any incontinence caused".

Presumably they had a receptionist that at least was aware she was a bit of a spelling thickie....and so used spell check. She just didn't check that it had come up with he right word for her.

smartiejake · 11/02/2008 23:48

LOL judd! Love that one.

Wonder if they provided any disappointed members with Tena lady pads as compensation for their cancelled class?

Pan · 11/02/2008 23:49

A glass shop near me had a lovely, painted-on-wood sign, boasting of their "Proffessional Service".

I begged to differ. >

Pan · 11/02/2008 23:53

and I always crack up at the "This door is alarmed" signs....aaaww...why so??

MotherFunk · 11/02/2008 23:55

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Pan · 12/02/2008 00:03

MF - see it out of context?? "This door is alarmed." At what, poor door?

Surely...

imaginaryfriend · 12/02/2008 00:05

Our local Indian Restaurant has an entire menu in which the word dishes is spelt as dishesh. Curry dishesh, vegetarian dishesh. I can't bear to look.

LyraSilvertongue · 12/02/2008 00:05

At me gym/swimming pool, there's a permanent sign politely asking members to shower before using the ammenities. Grrr.

MotherFunk · 12/02/2008 00:07

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Janni · 12/02/2008 00:07

Our local bingo hall offers a nice service to its customers - the Curtsey Bus

Pan · 12/02/2008 00:08
LyraSilvertongue · 12/02/2008 00:09

My gym, not me gym

SnappyLaGore · 12/02/2008 00:10

i really pissed off a 'chef' (i use the term v v loosely) i worked under as a KP for a while in australia... by spelling bolognese correctly (god i hope so, for the sake of this thread! lol) on the board for that evening... he said it was bolonaise or some such crap. i said id been to blogna and knew perfectly well how to spell it. he said hed been a 'chef' for 20 years and so he knew how to spell it.

i said that being wrong for a long time doesnt actually make you right... he hated me. i got fired not long after... for not 'giving it my all' (wtf?? my ALL, to being a KP?? i was backpacking... i moved on)

bossybritches · 12/02/2008 00:11

Pan -like "Heavy Plant Crossing"

Visions of a huge triffid doing the Green Cross Code