Even some of the most everyday activities get the sign treatment. Here's a great example of how to lock a door and then operate a tap.
To be fair, it's a farmhouse that's very kindly hosting a ticketed charity event. So the what would ordinarily be a private loo becomes a public loo.
So instruction for locking the loo door does play to that need for confidence that the loo can be secure and private.
"TO LOCK THE DOOR
Please push handle upwards
then turn the knob to the right
To UNLOCK
Turn door knob to left"
There's a rapid transition here from polite and full in the first half (please...turn the knob to the right) to a much more direct and abbreviated second half (turn door knob to left)
And then for the tap instruction. Taps are increasingly blending from with function. Sometimes the form can make the function a bit difficult to fathom at times. For example the increasingly common stick mixer tap - where you need to control not only the balance between hot and cold bit also the flow. So which way do you move the single lever.....forwards and backwards and left and right. Anyway, this has been properly anticipated here with the message
"TO OPERATE TAP
PULL LEVER TO THE RIGHT"
To be fair, it's a farmhouse that's very kindly hosting a ticketed charity event. So the what would ordinarily be a private loo becomes a public loo.
So instruction for locking the loo door does play to that need for confidence that the loo can be secure and private.
"TO LOCK THE DOOR
Please push handle upwards
then turn the knob to the right
To UNLOCK
Turn door knob to left"
There's a rapid transition here from polite and full in the first half (please...turn the knob to the right) to a much more direct and abbreviated second half (turn door knob to left)

"TO OPERATE TAP
PULL LEVER TO THE RIGHT"