I just defaced a sign at work. It is posted on the inside of the bathroom door and says "Did you wash your hands?".
Underneath it I wrote "No, but I did make your lunch."
I have no idea why I thought that was necessary, I don't know why someone thought the sign was necessary either.

btw: I don't work in food service, so don't worry about that.

Laura

why not? damn the man


-S

I appreciate occasional sign defacement. When I was in grad school many a horrible day was brightened by the graffitti on the "In Case of Fire, Do not Use Elevators" Sign. Someone had written "use water." It's the little things that brighten the day.

i am in favor of petty vandalisms. they make me laugh.

for instance "employees must wash hands" was defaced with "establishment must provide paper towels." tee-hee.

i also like the school bathroom type defacements where someone is like "cell phones cause cancer" followed by "microwaves cause cancer" and then, ever so cleverly, "convenience causes cancer."

or the sex related ones. i could go on and on. which reminds me, i need to go to the bathroom. (shouldn't i be taking a shower by 1:53 pm?)

Defaced signs like that make me laugh. When I take the train into Chicago, there's a sign next to the tracks that says "Do Not Cross Tracks." But somebody crossed out "Tracks" and wrote in his name. So instead it said "Do Not Cross Tim Jilla." It stayed up for quite a while, and I was very sad when they replaced it. You probably had to be there, but it always made me laugh. (Although to be fair I am easily amused...) I've always wanted to meet Tim Jilla so I could tell him how much I enjoyed his work.

On the road to a friends house there is a speed limit sign where "poop" is spray painted over it. It has been there forever. I don't know why anyone would do that. It's kind of funny though.

There is a common sign in CA that says some thing like "Common Decency & the California state law state that all employee should wash hands before returning to work." The alteration that I most enjoy said "Common decency & the California state law Have Nothing To Do With One Another!"

Fantastic!

the trend here in savannah is the stop signs. but then again there is a big art school here (savannah college of art and design, or SCAD). someone painted israel under the word STOP on one. today I saw three in a row that were covered by red posterboard over the word "stop" and one said art (white lettering), the other said painting, and i don't remember what the third said. my boyfriend said "isn't that dangerous?" but if you don't still realize that it is a stop sign, uhhhhhhhhh.

yeah, the ones in austin, tx said STOP Bush. muwahahah.

Somewhere near my house is a tunnel just past a sharp curve. The sign said, "Sound Horn" and someone added a "-y", so now we are cautioned to "Sound Horny".

p

The apartment complex where my friends live has writing on the stairs warning against solicitors and such... they even have a Spanish translation:
No Poner Propaganda

But someone changed it a bit, so now it says:
No Boner Propaganda

I giggle everytime I see it!

Outside our high school there was a sign
"Beat the clock Wing Wednesdays"

It was changed several times to
"eat the cock or beat the cock"

A friend of mine who is an anarchist once wrote on a fence. You see, in my city, there are some condo complexes with fences around them for "security" My friend wrote on the wall, "You can fence them out, but you can't keep out the revolution."

He was pretty drunk at the time.

Sorry had to bump this, didn't see it the first time.

Recently the morons in my neighborhood posted a handmade sign in their lawns (about 4 houses participated) asking us to "Please slow down".
My husband had to physically restrain me from jumping out of the car and writing "Please keep your kids out of the street" on it with my trusty Sharpie.
Explanation:
In my area, these people let their kids ride their bikes (after dark) in the street all the time and then glare at me when I go by abiding the speed limit like a good citizen. They also have 2 or 3 basketball goals set up *FACING THE STREET* in an effort, I suppose, to encourage their children to get run over.

Grr. They make me angry.

i bought one of those stop sign red "homophobia" stickers and stuck it to my high school's parking lot stop sign one night when i was in school. i was the first out kid in my high school and got the requisite amount of shit for it.

they couldn't get the damn sticker off. they had to replace the stop sign ;)

there's a few stop sign alterations around here. the one i enjoy most is:
STOP
avoiding your mother!

oh! and i had to add that these have absolutely cracked me up!