You, Too, Can Turn Your Lawn Into A Gas Chamber

I saw this product while shopping for wholly unrelated home improvement items a couple weeks ago.  You definitely need to click that picture to enbiggen.

Seriously, I don't know where to begin here.  How about "Pressurized Fumes Find Rodents Fast!" like it's a rodent-seeking missile.  Or "Kills more than one at a time" which is a really positive spin on this indiscriminate approach. Or, worst of all, the underground scene in the lower left corner (which I will not provide a close-up).

On a positive note, you have an excellent option when you finally can no longer live with what you've done.

Men's Room And Grill

I participated in a fund-raiser trivia night a couple weeks ago.  On my first trip to the restroom, I saw this. Click the picture to enbiggen.

Now, I know that right-hand symbol indicates that it has a baby changing table.  But I cannot get over the fact of how much it looks like a grill.  Complete with red dot for the pilot light.

Screw It, Close Enough

Today's post comes from field correspondent Outlaw, who snapped this picture while stopped at a red light.  Click to enbiggen.

Not so much here... or here...

Sarcastic Much?

Today's post is yet another from the fecund field correspondent, Shu.  Click to enbiggen.

Maybe it is a message of genuine appreciation for those who patronized this establishment. Or it might be a thinly veiled middle finger directed at those who didn't.

Excuse Me, Stewardess? I'd Like To Move.

Today's post is courtesy of our newest field correspondent, The Sheriff.  Click the picture to enbiggen.

On our recent vacation to Honduras, he was seated in an exit row of the airplane.  As he was dutifully reading the airplane safety card, he noticed one requirement that was, let's say, different from the rest.  Let's look at that third-from-last bullet: "sufficient...oral capacity".  Hmm, I've flown a fair amount and don't recall that ever being mentioned.  And I would think that would severely delay the deplaning process.  But I guess they do things differently in Central America.

Jesus Had Better Behave Himself

I apologize for the hiatus but I've had a lot going on lately.  I went on a tropical vacation, quit one job and started a new one.  Hopefully I'll get back on track.

Frankie and I took a trip last year during which we visited a botanical garden.  We saw this sign while there.  Click the picture to enbiggen.

"Stay OFF the Pools".  Off, it says.  If that word wasn't in all caps I might just let it slide.  But it says "off" and not "out of".  I assume the author of this sign is wanting visitors to not climb on the stone walls.  But that would have been easy to say: "Stay off walls".  Maybe it does mean to keep out of the water but that "OFF" really is pretty emphatic about what it wants.  So I am left with understanding that they to not want visitors to treat their pools like the Sea of Galilee.

How To Class Up A Place

Today's post comes from a correspondent from whom we haven't heard in a while.  It's Griz!  Clicken to enbiggen.

Nothing says you have an eye for art like buying a picture of Old Wine.  Old Wine is one of my favorite brands/styles/varietals. In fact, Frankie and I went out for dinner last night and we enjoyed a bottle of Old Wine with it.  So as Griz says, "class up the joint with some paintings of, you know, Old Wine and stuff..."

8 Simple Rules To Use My Bathroom

Back-to-back posts by Shu.  Click the pics to enbiggen.

This occurred at a Marathon in Melbourne, Fla. Before the manager would give me a key to the outdoor restroom, he lectured me about reading and following all of the rules posted in the restroom. After I assured him I would adhere, he paid me the nicest compliment I've ever received:
"I'm not worried about you. I can tell by your face, you know how to use the bathroom."
I admit I felt weird flashing the comot, but rules are rules.

Just Add WOW!

Field correspondent Shu provides today's post.  Click the picture to enbiggen.

Normally, 20 cents off wouldn't be that impressive. But when the sign says "WOW!", well 20 cents off? WOW!

Skewed Data? What's That?

I saw this while having lunch at a worldwide fast food chain. Click the picture to enbiggen.

This is a case study on how to ensure you will not get a representative response.  Obviously they only want to hear good things but this is pretty egregious.   The huge "Want a Free Sandwich?".  Having the words "highly satisfied" in a different color.  Repeating "free sandwich". And, my person favorite, having "if you're not satisfied" in much smaller text and telling you to call and not to put that in the survey.  Ladies and Gentlemen, I present you statistics.