Best Worst Sandwich

So this sandwich is  "The best sandwich I've ever had" A quote from somebody called John Thorpe.  

Maybe giving this some personal reference gives it some convincing credibility.  Just because it's been said does not make it true.  Even if we assume John is sure and true, the credibility of the quote depends rather more on how many sandwiches our dear friend John has had.

Of course if this was the first sandwich that John ever had - it would still be the best - but it would also be the worst of course...

Blue Badge Beration Behaviour

Here's a parking notice for blue badge holders at a local authority car park.

Blue badge holders also have a blue card clock that sometimes needs to be displayed alongside the blue badge where blue bad parking has some time limit.  Simple enough... set the cardboard hands on the cardboard clock to the parking arrival time.

This sign goes a step further.  Rather than simply - as would be usual - ask for the clock to be displayed, ...here there's a rather different exacting tone here....that they "must be displayed correctly".  That's all rather implicit in their use, and explicit in the instructions that come with the Blue badge.

Disguised Directions

Here's a road sign...

It's a T-Junction, approaching from the trunk of the T.  So the left and right direction arrows are meant for us.

However the support for the other signs obscures our sign.

It's always amazing that with the degree of concentration that desired and needed on the roads, and especially so at junctions, that extra barriers like this are created.

Water Cooler Confusion

Here's a water cooler dispenser.

Two outputs for water - left and right.  One for cooler water than than the other.

Two buttons to press - top and bottom.

The assumptive link here is that we tend to work left to right and top to bottom, so logically the top button produces water from the left side.  But we do need to explicitly think about this and check ourselves.  Maybe that's why there's a wet floor as people do get it wrong, and enter health and safety considerations and hence the sign.  Water's no only a precious resource but costs money too, so no real excuse to be less than really clear. Wonder how many people get cold when they want regular and then vise vera and end up wasting.

Why not just put the buttons side by side, even some labels might help.

Left Right Litter

So litter bins. And two of them too.  But there's a difference....One had a white backed litter sign and one has a red backed litter sign.  So what does that mean for litter.  We're all becoming increasingly familiar with the need to separate recycling from our rubbish and even separating out our recycling into different sorts.  But separating out litter into different sorts.

And red too makes us stop and think - as it's a serious warning colour... Red traffic lights (and even red blood) which makes us think even harder about if and what is the difference in purpose of these two bins.

An then....with the red theme....is that red signed bin anything to do with the red-banded bin to the side?