Odd Signs & Symbols

There's an odd phenomenon in the bathroom stalls at work.  Throughout the day, certain guys go in there and just make a gross, juvenile mess.  I have no idea who it is.  But I'm amazed that some grown men can't be bothered to take ten extra seconds to aim or clean up a spot or not just throw stuff all over. Sometimes these angry little paper signs appear, printed at some nearby printer.  They only last for an hour or two before I assume ending up in the toilets with more of the other junk.  I also don't know who takes them down.  Not me.  The cleaning lady?  She's not in there in the afternoons.  One can only assume it's one of the slobs who is offended that the rest of us are offended by their offensiveness. Just a silly game of paper signs, going nowhere.

Sometimes a sign is there for a learning moment.  Some trace of science or logic is waiting.  These are my favorite signs.  They are not telling you what to do or saying the shop is closed or you can't play that guitar here anymore ... just giving information. This sign was in the Botanic Gardens at Brengle Terrace Park in Vista CA: This is when whoever is with me is going to expect my professor alter-ego to appear.  So, how does it work?  You go stand on the stone marked with the current month, and your head will show you the time of day. So I stood on September and it was 12:30pm. I'm sure I spent a few minutes explaining the sun's annual path in the sky and why this works.  But that day we were trying to find the last monarch butterflies of the year, so the sun moved on.