I need another post for the year. I was going to answer a question someone asked about Christmas and Christians and Santa Claus. Maybe another time. Instead, another look at a sign with obvious error.

In Albury, there’s a campus of Charles Sturt University. Podiatry is a local course, and they run a low-fee clinic as part of the training. Good idea!

Someone got nicely printed signs to show that the disabled parking spots can be used by clinic patients. They should have found a proof reader.

I believe the word you want is excepted – there’s a rule about parking, and it has an exception.

I was at a mechanic’s last Friday getting car rego. While pottering about waiting for the final check, I saw this in the window:

The type of sticker took me back! Can you see the instructions (top left)? Moisten this side to adhere. I remember putting stickers like this on my bedroom windows in the 70s, or on dad’s car windows. They were mainly for footy teams, if I remember correctly.

I wonder if this has been the same mechanic business the whole time since 1971, or if the workshop has been a whole string of different businesses. The current business is ‘Roundabout motors’, with no roundabout in sight.