Odd Signs & Symbols

I have been getting Anne set up with an Etsy site and lots of materials and gear to make a variety of crafting projects.  What's weird is that when we go into Michael's now, or pretty much ANY PLACE, there are little signs with sayings on every wall, and so many of them have a horrible, unreadable, eyesore crap cursive font.  Here are a few we found on a short walk this afternoon...    clog kijjej?  Shevlavligarvis?  Shengnigan8?  Oh, right, that little "g" is an "a" ... got it now. How is THIS the default crafty font right now?  Is it supposed to be stylish?  It looks like incoherent scribbles at first until we squint and strain and figure THAT bump is supposed to be a U or an N and THAT blob is probably an A, and then like a Rorschach test some kind of word comes into focus, but hell, it's a process.  This font is the single most widespread fail I have seen in 30+ years of working with graphics. It makes no sense that so many people are using it, so ma

Sometimes a sign gives more information than you really wanted. This is from a bathroom of an Irish pub in San Juan Capistrano: Just walking in, I didn't really want to know there was a weird plumbing issue.  So I used the other one.  But if it did start flooding and there was no remedy posted, we would just panic.  So I guess it's nice to look up and see what to do.  I imagine it gets really crowded in there on a Saturday night and all kinds of shenanigans might happen. Still, TMI on this one. If I find other cases of TMI signs, I will post them here.

Here's a cute sidewalk sign we spotted in San Juan Capistrano today ... We looked down from our hotel room balcony and saw a little brewery right down the hill.  But there was no path to get there and it was a few twists and turns on busy streets just to get there.  No to mention navigating to the very back row of a huge sprawl of a business park.  Then it had exactly these two things we needed: quick food and a quirky place to hang out for a bit.