When you buy women’s kids on sale, can you return them for a full refund?
FAIRPORT, NY: Second Bloom Consignment doesn’t have a big sign budget. They use this little white A-frame to advertise all of their on-sale variations. Last week, “Women’s Kids” were 30% off. Looks like this week’s sale is different, though they’re being a bit mysterious about it.
How could the store have fixed this sign’s disturbing message?
Well, both “women’s” and “kids” should have been possessive. The last line should have used a related noun like “clothing”. They also could have added the word “and” in front of “kids”. Let’s face it, they need a bigger sign!
Notice the padlock. I wonder who’d want to steal their sign, anyway–the Grammar Police?
Have you seen any great sign goofs lately? Tell us about it, or share a link to your image in the Comments section, just below.
Hilarious!! You should submit this to the Tonight Show for their headlines segment. It would be perfect.
Oh wow, thanks, Rebekah!
It’s been so long since I’ve watched that I would never have thought of doing that. Cool.
I don’t have a TV and haven’t watched the Tonight Show in ages. I miss Johnny.
He was the master.
We hardly ever stay up anymore for “late night” anything, Rebekah.
Nobody I’ve seen, tho, can hold a candle to Johnny. You’re absolutely right.
Oh, I saw a good while on vacation a few years back. It read: Metting Place for excursions.
I’m pretty sure they meant Meeting Place, but there was a lot of drinking going on so…what do I know?
Amazing how sign-makers can miss such simple typo’s, isn’t it, Glory?
I’ve seen a couple like that this year, but didn’t have a good camera with me when I did. Just doofy typo’s, really–not actual grammar errors. But funny, yes. Do you think the word “metting” actually means anything?
Great headline – first time I’ve checked one of your newsletters for a while, and I’m glad I did, very funny
Great to see you, Amit!
Yeah, I know–not weighty stuff, but glad you got a laugh out of it. Thanks for reading!
Hilarious! (And I actually got a minor headache reading it.)
I see signs like this every so often. I should really remember to take pictures.
LOL, thanks Francesca!
Love your writing, and you have a wonderful URL (which at first I thought you’d “stolen” from Sophie Lizard, oops sorry!). Glad you stopped by. And please, if you do get any pics of signs like these, consider sharing them here. I have at least two more coming up in the next 30 days.
That’s funny in a painful way, Jim!
I remember a grocery store sign from many years ago. It was near Mother’s Day and the store had whole turkeys on sale, so the sign read:
Happy Mother’s Day
Turkeys
And that was it. So now, I will often say to my mother, “Happy Mother’s Day, Turkey!”
Funny how something like that will stay with you for years, isn’t it, Bobbi?
I love the scene in On Golden Pond in which Normal calls Ethel “Miss Turkey”!
My wife and I still laugh about the nearby village that labels its speed bumps as “Speed Humps”. Must be a local idiom.
Hmm, I may have to post that one! (evil grin)
Hilarious Bobbi AND Jim! I love those word spoofs just like the Leno show does, they always make me laugh so hard!
Thanks for stopping by, Marianne.
I’d love to find more of these, just by doing a better job of paying attention to the world around me.
My wife forwarded a spoof sign to me last night, purporting to be a McDonald’s marquee offering an “Anus Pounder” (ouch!) — but that one was likely some basic smart-ass photo-shopping. Fake funny signs are nearly as funny as real funny signs, to me.