The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!
And how much am I bet that some mindless moron will ignore it, get hurt, and sue anyway?
*Sigh*
Peter
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Bryn
said...
And possibly win, because the reading age of the sign was beyond their personal reading age.... ? Almost impossible to make this sort of thing sufficiently moron proof...
It's been my observation that most people don't read signs. I suspect it's that "reading" part that causes some of the problem. Another component is a total lack of situational awareness in many, if not most, people. They just don't notice much of anything in their world. The sign doesn't exist to them. And then there are those who deliberately ignore any input from the rest of humanity, for various reasons.
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And possibly win, because the reading age of the sign was beyond their personal reading age.... ? Almost impossible to make this sort of thing sufficiently moron proof...
Probably wouldn't help, but it's amusing.
It's been my observation that most people don't read signs. I suspect it's that "reading" part that causes some of the problem. Another component is a total lack of situational awareness in many, if not most, people. They just don't notice much of anything in their world. The sign doesn't exist to them. And then there are those who deliberately ignore any input from the rest of humanity, for various reasons.
Every attempt to make ANYthing moron-proof is fore-doomed to (ultimate) failure - every time you try, a "better" moron comes along, and...
Doesn't mean you shouldn't try - just means you shouldn't get overly-upset when your best efforts fail.
Be Well -
J. S. Bridges
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