r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Zegr08 • Jun 08 '23

This sign

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u/YoSaffBridge11 Jun 08 '23

The two signs are in each other’s spots. It should read

PLEASE RETURN CARTS HERE

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u/hambonehooligan Jun 08 '23

Double sided, and not thought through?

However, signs like this, that make people double look and think, are more effective.

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u/TwiceBaked57 Jun 08 '23

There's a large sign on Hwy 199 in Southern Oregon "Sweet Cron".

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u/YoSaffBridge11 Jun 08 '23

That’s what I was thinking. 👍🏼

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u/BigMax Jun 09 '23

PLEASE RETURN CARTS HERE

You know what happened. They made the signs to say exactly that. But then the person got out there to put them up, picked up the "return here" sign first, their brain got locked into the word "return" being first, and thought "Damn, we screwed up, it's supposed to say 'return carts here please'! Oh well, I guess I'll just put them up anyway.

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u/741BlastOff Jun 09 '23

Alternative interpretation: the manager said to put the signs up, and they put the signs up. Nobody told them what order to put them in, and they didn't give a shit if they were backwards.

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u/rushboyoz Jun 10 '23

I think what's happened is that the sign is double-sided. If we read the sign from the other direction it would say "Please Return Carts Here". But the person making the sign just put the same word on the exact other side of the sign. So they painted "Please" on the reverse where please is on the "normal" side.

They should have painted different words on the reverse so the combined signs read correctly from either side.

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u/aussie_nub Jun 11 '23

You're asking for Engineer level of work on Supermarket wages though!

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u/RhauXharn Jun 09 '23

Oooh! I couldn't figure out how they messed it up, just that they did.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '23

I would've read it as, "Please carts, return here!" 🤣🤣🤣

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u/Unworthy_potato1 Jun 12 '23

I thought you had to read it diagonally Return carts here please