Whilst waiting

We spent nearly two hours waiting in the Fracture Clinic, so one's mind turns to the proliferation of signs. Apostrophes seem to have become unfashionable, with "Childrens Play Area" and "VISITORS INFORMATION", both being properly made signs.


Then there was the problematic "No smoking sign" as opposite. People often want to stick it up with the diagonal red line either horizontal or vertical. The two we saw had it going horizontally. For one the cigarette was pointing north east, the other south west ( with the smoke going in an odd direction). I suspect the person sticking them to the wall didn't know which way round they went, so thought one must be right. A pity, really!