No, the title doesn’t refer to the wearing of hideously patterned Bermudas: just a couple of moments that amused me recently and which I thought were worth sharing.
I was on my way to lunch with WF1 when I spotted this. Other road users must’ve thought I was some sort of mad woman as I laughed away to myself, veering off the road when I could safely park up, walk back and take a snap.
It’s great, isn’t it? There are definitely some cases where the absence of proof reading or checking is vital to our well-being. It certainly made me feel better. Thank goodness for illiteracy.
I was obviously in frivolous frame of mind that day because not much further on I saw a homemade poster taped to a road sign advertising a
‘Massive Rug Sale‘.
And I wondered how large a rug has to be before it’s a carpet.
So funny
I know, I thought so, thanks! 😉
I’d like to know what the rug/carpet cutoff is, too. My guess, you’ve got to be able to be to visualize yourself flying on it, ala Arabian Nights, for it to be a carpet. Anything else is a rug, massive or otherwise.
I do hope the massive rug sale wasn’t during peek traffic hours.
Ha! But a carpet cutoff might very well be a rug…we could go on for hours😀
If we had been travelling together Jenny, mayhem may have ensued! Modern English education gives me many laugh out loud – or alternately, muttering under breath moments…….. I drove behind a van yesterday proudly printed with all the different cleaning jobs the firm offered including ‘crime scene clearing’ (before or after the police are involved? I wondered aloud to no-one in particular) which made me laugh and ‘you’re satisfaction our guarantee’ which didn’t.
That’s priceless! Fancy even advertising it😀I love finding things like that…we should keep a book of them. The apostrophe causes so many misunderstandings as does a missing comma – as in “let’s eat Grandma.”😆
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It is such a relief that other people notice this stuff. The wrong word is used all the time and it’s confusing. You think, ‘surely they must have meant’ but there it is in print, which should be reliable. After he retired from newspapering, my father worked for fun in a hardware store, where he quickly became the proofreader for the signs. Thanks for the laughs!!
I bet your Dad came across some howlers. You’ve reminded me of something that used to make my Dad laugh. He would regularly drive past a builders merchant who advertised “50% off all our ladders” – Dad reckoned they’d only be any use to people living in bungalows! 😀
Oh, that’s so funny, I’m surprised it hasn’t caused an accident!
I know! But knowing that road as I do, it’s always so jammed up with traffic, you’d be hard pushed to run in to anybody other than in first gear…😉
Sounds like it will be even more jammed now in the off peek period 😉
Thank you for risking life and limb to share a good laugh with us, Jenny! I can picture you now, swerving off the road to capture the shot. LOL!
I felt it time to post something less serious Jill. I’ll try to find some more to keep us going over the festive period! 😀
Oh, I needed this today, Jenny. Thank you!
But the first one especially makes me smile. I think it’s Part 2 of my post, and the construction workers are peeking in at the Nude Yoga group! 🙂 ❤
Oh good grief! The mind boggles. Thanks Marylin 😀
Excellent. Road signs are becoming less and less literate.
They certainly are but hey, if it makes us smile…😆
I think the Trump may have a massive rug. But his supporters won’t buy it.
Haha, perhaps Farage would call it a ‘syrup.’ Or perhaps not. I spotted him in my mother’s supermarket which I wasn’t even going to mention on this blog. Now look what you’ve made me do 😄
Great moments Jenny, I guess that’s why you never see anyone doing any work when the traffic cones are out, because they can only do it when we’re not peeking 🙂
Haha, nice one Andrea 😉
Oh my. Such a good one. 🙂 I keep a collection of these gems, too – good teaching tool. In fact, I just peaked at it a few days ago. Or was that piqued? 😉
Hmm, haha, well I’m a bit piqued that you found the third peak, dammit! Nice one, Lynette 😀
Fun. Several weeks ago we passed a convenience store with a sign which read, ‘Watch for Motorcycles. Gas, Snakes, and Fresh Deli.’
SNAKES? And by the way, we have a fresh deli counter…how very weird. Maybe the snakes were past their sell by date…😉
Gorgeous, Jenny. Thank you for sharing these and giving me a giggle. I’m pleased you got a peek at that “off peek” sign. Yeah, did you google how massive the rug must be to be a carpet? I’m sure there’s an answer for everything. LOL 🙂
Hi Norah – pleased you had a giggle. No, I didn’t peek at Google- maybe I should? 😀
I was just being silly. But I’m sure there would be an answer! 🙂
Haha…so funny! There are so many road work signs around my town at the moment, maybe I should take a better ‘peek’ at them to compare notes! And I love the image of you stopping to take a photo. Brilliant. As for the ‘massive rug sale’…you made me laugh out loud with your comment…I mean, really, exactly when does a massive rug become a carpet?! LOL…I can’t stop… thanks Jenny, I needed this today! xxx
Hi Sherri! Yes, I bet anyone seeing me probably thought I was either mad or a real old jobsworth!
I just love things like that, I can be amused at the slightest thing which I think is a positive thing in the current world where everything seems so miserable.
Hope your Christmas prep is going to plan. I find myself alarmingly organised. I’ve probably forgotten something major while being distracted by hilarious signage.
Haha…it is alarming isn’t to find oneself so organised…always thinking that something very important must be missing! Well done you, I’m getting there, thanks to myriad lists, gradually getting whittled down to the master list which is a good thing 🙂 A good distraction that makes us laugh is wonderful…we need more!
First of all, great blogging fodder, Jenny! All of us try our best with writing and spelling but oh my! Dates would maybe pass my good editing skills. You would think this would have gone through two people before sign printed out. Laughing at this! 😀
As far as rugs, it is kind of crazy, maybe American (?), but my Mom often would say, “You forgot to run the sweeper over the rug!” (Rose pink wall to wall carpet in living room.) I say “vacuum” and “carpet!”
Mom being a high school English, World Lit and Spanish teacher usually did fine with proper language. She was raised by two immigrants (Grandpa was Swedish, Grandma was German) and in the heart of New England. Many expressions were not Ohio (Mid-West) ones! She wrote to a nice talk show host, Jay Leno, about some sort of improper English which he liked to make fun of in newspapers. I have her signed picture of him as a fairly young man.
Mom still really gets annoyed at newscasters and journalists for poor use of “I” (instead of me) after “of” EXAMPLE: “She was an acquaintance of JFK and I (he, she or they.)”
The “and” separated from the preposition must be their downfall. My good teaching friend also says I instead of me bit I would never dream correcting her. Mom would, though!
I love that your mother wrote to Jay Leno! She should’ve had her own blog! ‘I” and “me” are often infuriatingly mixed up. And recently I’ve been irritated by kids not understanding the difference between “our” and “are.” Because with our accent, the two can sound similar. When you see it written incorrectly in their work, it makes no sense at all. I’m sure that would make your Mom see red😀
Thanks for appreciating my ‘fodder’ – it’s always good to spot something that can turn into a couple or more paragraphs 😉
I doubt anyone proofs those road signs. How funny. Massive rug sale. Yes, that too is a riot. Thanks for making me laugh.
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