It’s a bad sign! These supposedly helpful notices will confuse you more than ever
Typically, we barely register the messages delivered on public boards because they largely tell us exactly what we expect to read. But sometimes they stop us in our way.
Facebook group The absurd drawing projectwhatH has over 100,000 members, is a community where people can share weird and wacky signs they’ve seen on their travels around the world.
While some posts made people laugh because of their wording, such as a road sign directing people to a place called “Horneytown” Road in Carolina, others are funny because of their setting.
For example, a sign in a U.S. supermarket told customers to “look what they’re buying for $1” atop three completely empty shelves.
This sign is something many can relate to with the cost of living crisis and rising inflation – there’s nothing on the shelf you can get for $1
How so? Ironically, someone tried to make a sign to make their complicated entrance easier to find, but it’s even more confusing
Elsewhere, a sign at a butcher’s shop in the US urged people not to chuckle over a sign saying that a “dry rub” makes the meat taste better.
And one store’s employees decided honesty was best by putting up a sign in the window saying they’d be open late because of a “collective hangover.”
Here, FEMAIL takes a look at some of the funniest boards posted on the Facebook group…
This hilarious sign directs people to Horneytown Road, located in South Carolina in the US
Ouch! A sign of a man urinating is above a sign of two round objects with scissors snipping off some eggs that look alarmingly like testicles
The people who made this cheeky sign in an American butcher shop knew it would make people chuckle
The staff at the store were very honest with their customers saying they would be opening later due to some sore heads and asking if customers could be ‘gentle’
Two adjacent shops in the Fenland town of March make ‘The Pet Shop Boyes’ – a nod to the pop duo The Pet Shop Boys who were famous for their hits in the 1980s and 1990s
What the duck? A rather bizarre sign stating that the ducks have ‘laser beams on their heads’
It is not clear whether this billboard in Georgia was an ill-conceived placement or a deliberately provocative marketing strategy
A sign that proves punctuation is everything could lead to some confusion among dog owners
The sign describing the items available in this supermarket aisle paints a lonely picture of someone who buys meals for one, has bottles of wine and a cat
A gritter spreading grit on the floor in the snow has a photo of internet meme Salt Bae on the back, referencing the celebrity chef who went viral for his herbal style
A rather peculiar sign that points people to a red button labeled ‘green button’, which may leave some people stuck in it