They had to make a sign for that

[freakyfemme]

Ooh, ooh!!!  I forgot my favourite one:

"Cape does not enable wearer to fly" (written on the packaging for a child's Superman or Batman Halloween costume).

[Slartibartfast]

My favorites were "do not iron" (on a cheap plastic tablecloth) and "for external use only" (on nail polish).

[VorFemme]

I think it was Jeff Foxworthy who had a bit on this regarding Lamaze class.  They had to tell them not to have sex after the woman's water broke.  He wanted to know who tried it in the first place.  Ugh. 

One of the Advice Twins several years ago (when it was the original Abby & Ann) had a letter from a woman who had divorced her husband over his insatiable need to have what he wanted when he wanted it.  He had crawled into her hospital bed AFTER surgery, while she was hooked up to an IV drip and some kind of monitor because he could not wait the six weeks for her to "recover".  She found out that he had a one night stand IN the hospital with someone later in her stay - it seems being caught in bed when the monitor went off had her doctor putting the staff on her floor on notice that they were not to be left alone together, since he had no concept of self-control.

I forget who he'd slept with - but it was the end of his wife being understanding about his sex drive.............actually - being assaulted within 24 hours of the surgery was the last straw.  Finding out that he had at least one "one night stand" before she left the hospital was after she'd decided to file for a divorce.

There are people out there (men and women) who are so self centered that they react as if the entire rest of the world is here for THEIR benefit.  The male in the story just takes that self-centeredness to an extreme most people find hard to believe.

[kingsrings]

People can be disgusting, eh?

The only sign of this ilk I ever saw was at a Chinese buffet restaurant.  The sign said, "Only take as much as you'll eat.  Help us stop food waste."   The waitress explained that too many of their customers would leave behind plates and plates of perfectly good untouched food on their table when they left.   I guess it was case after case of, "Eyes bigger than the stomach" and it was costing the restaurant a lot of money.

Ha! I hate signs like this @ all you can eat buffets. I am a SUPER SUPER SUPER picky eater. So when I go to restaurants, I never feel like I can try something new b/c odds are that I won't like it. The one place I feel like I CAN try new things? an all you can eat buffet place. I'll only take a bite or 2 of the stuff I'm not sure about, but I might have 2 bites of 12 different things. If I taste it and I don't like it? I am not going to eat it, I'll leave it and go back for something I *do* like.

That is the ONLY reason I eat at buffet places, so if they even make me THINK they are watching the amount of food left on my plate, I won't eat there. Honestly, buffets almost always cost more than I'd pay for a regular meal - and when I eat dinner out I always have AT LEAST one meal's worth of leftovers. I'm not greedy, and I don't take more than I'll eat. But if I don't like the way it tastes, I'm not going to eat it. I feel like I've paid extra for that priviledge buy partaking of the buffet in the first place.

As long as you are not leaving a big pile of food on your plate, I don't see a problem and don't think that you are the one being talked about with this sign. Nothing wrong not liking a food you have got, just don't decide that after you have taken a big portion of it. Like you do, just take a bite or two to test. The Indian buffet restaurant my friends and I love to go to have taken this a step further by instituting a small added charge if you leave your plate more than 50% full when done. They got tired of seeing so much food go to waste, and I don't blame them a bit.

[kingsrings]

Yup.  It's one of the reasons I don't run indoors- I'm a spitter.  It just gets to the point sometimes where I have to spit, especially if I'm at all congested.  It's gross enough to do it outside, but inside... ew. 

But I totally understand why that sign was required, and I have more sympathy for the runners than the people who need to be told not to use the ruins as a toilet.

So why don't you spit into a handkerchief or tissue that you have in your pocket? That is not an excuse to be rude and gross out others.

[itiswhatitisn't]

I have yet to find a pair of running shorts with pockets.  And while it is very gross and I never do it when there are people around or indoors, for me it's the difference between spitting or choking.  Hence why a cold is a good reason to stays home from the gym.  There's a guy at the gym who always sounds like he's about to spit and is very vocal around it and grosses me out. 

[kingsrings]

I have yet to find a pair of running shorts with pockets.  And while it is very gross and I never do it when there are people around or indoors, for me it's the difference between spitting or choking.  Hence why a cold is a good reason to stays home from the gym.  There's a guy at the gym who always sounds like he's about to spit and is very vocal around it and grosses me out. 

Okay then, who cleans up the spit that you spat out onto the indoor track? Or do you just leave it there for someone else to clean up or be grossed out by? Sorry, but if you can't run without spitting, then perhaps you should just stick to an outdoor track where that is perfectly okay to do.

[MineralDiva]

I found a whole bunch of silly warning labels here:

http://www.rinkworks.com/said/warnings.shtml

Kinda scary!

[IndianInlaw]

I had this teeny inflatable disk (to be tossed like a frisbee).   It was all of six or eight inches across and only the inch high rim inflated.

The warning read "Not to be used as a lifesaving device".

[Suze]

I found a whole bunch of silly warning labels here:

http://www.rinkworks.com/said/warnings.shtml

Kinda scary!

Oh - are there pearls of wisdom on that site ---- NOT

Will have to read more of it later

[Wordgeek]

Best sign I have ever seen:  In Korea, in front of a heritage building with wide shallow steps, there was a sign showing a car going up the steps and surrounded by a red circle with a line through it.  Translation = Don't drive on the steps? 

[Rach]

I found a whole bunch of silly warning labels here:

http://www.rinkworks.com/said/warnings.shtml

Kinda scary!

That site is great thank you ! Find myself having to read all of it

[T'Mar of Vulcan]

Darwin's getting tired of thinking of new ways to cull the herd.

Didn't the Ancients invent the Wraith for that?

(I'm so, SO sorry.)

[T'Mar of Vulcan]

You'd be surprised how many people don't know that electricity and water don't mix.

Every time I see somebody using an electrical appliance in a bathroom in an American TV program, I just shake my head. Here, you are not allowed to have electrical outlets in the bathroom at all. Period. You can have normal ceiling lights, but the switch has to be outside the bathroom. Whenever I see people electrocuting themselves with CD players, tanning lamps, hairdryers, etc., I always think that if they followed common sense and didn't put electrical outlets in bathrooms, those things could be avoided.

[baconsmom]

You'd be surprised how many people don't know that electricity and water don't mix.

Every time I see somebody using an electrical appliance in a bathroom in an American TV program, I just shake my head. Here, you are not allowed to have electrical outlets in the bathroom at all. Period. You can have normal ceiling lights, but the switch has to be outside the bathroom. Whenever I see people electrocuting themselves with CD players, tanning lamps, hairdryers, etc., I always think that if they followed common sense and didn't put electrical outlets in bathrooms, those things could be avoided.

How weird. In my old apartment, the only mirrors near outlets we had were in the bathrooms, so if we wanted to curl our hair or something, it had to be in the bathroom.

I would just find it so, so strange not to be able to do all my grooming in the bathroom.