"Urine here..."? Shame on you!
At the wonderful International Builders' Show put on by the National Association of Homebuilders in Orlando, Florida, a week or so ago, where I was with 100,000 of my closest friends, I was taken aback when I went into one of the ladies' rooms in the Orange County Convention Center and saw, on the mirror over one of the sinks (over a SINK!!!) a maroon sign that said:
"Urine here, you should be there,
[with an arrow pointing down, into the sink]
booth W4494 in the Tech Home Expo
Where's a camera when I need one? I knew I should have gotten that camera phone.
Clearly it belonged at the very least in the men's room above a urinal, where the arrow would point there instead of into a sink (geez, a sink!). I should let the folks at SketchUp defend themselves, hopefully tell me that it was the mischievous act of a misguided competitor, but since this is a blog, I will just say that I think it's tacky at best and offensive for certain for them to have produced the sign in the first place, for any rest room. I can assure you that the women who saw the sign while I was gauging reactions in the ladies room were put off, not amused and perplexed as to why it was there. After I saw it twice, a (female) show official removed it. She didn't wad it up and throw it away. Wonder what she did with it.
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