Multi-purpose "signs"

Signs make things seem so official. Someone feels that a statement is so very important that it must be adorning a sheet of thin metal, posted up for all to see.

...this is exactly the reason that when i find errors in signage, I find it absolutely amusing and completely fantastic.

Exhibit A
I was in a restaurant last week and came upon this beaut at the salad bar. I was so thrown off that i had to take a picture of it.



- Shouldn't there be something to balance this sign out? There are only clean plates on this salad bar. To warrant a glance of my eye I'd appreciate it if there were a "Place Used Plates Here" sign to even things out, along with a stack of plates littered with tomato snot and withered lettuce, oozy with chlorophyll.

-Maybe they were just gloating on the fact that they clean their plates? In that case the "clean" warrants some italicization.

-Are they calling their customers pigs? Like, "Hey, slob. How about you not reuse your plate to get your second helping? There's an entire stack of clean one's here."

Exhibit B
A sign on the refrigerator at work



-What's up with the quotation marks? Is that sarcasm? Is this a "joke" and you're actually going to dispose of my entire stack of lean cuisines every day rather than at the end of the week like you "promised"?

- Is this a ploy to keep things out of your icy belly?

Exhibit C
Plastic cutlery dispenser at work



- In case you forgot, spoons are no longer limited to just soup. Having cereal? Grab a spoon! Chili? We've got the tool for you. Oatmeal? You're all set.

- And why are the spoons the only one's labeled as versatile? Can i not use a fork to eat my salad and stab myself in the eye when i don't feel like working any more?