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February 17th, 2009

Elderly people

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I’m on a bit of a holiday at the moment. I’m still logging onto the internet, the difference being that I have to balance the small laptop on top of a wardrobe to get an internet signal whilst straining on tiptoe to see it, rather than just sitting at my desk in comfort. Alternatively I can go to a hotspot internet location serving not especially good £2.50 coffee.

There’s nothing particularly interesting or amusing about this holiday snap, but it is my custom to share a holiday picture or two with any readers who are still reading. Feel free to share any thoughts about the lessons that we can all learn from this sign.

On a photographic note, I posted a few pictures from Synod this morning on my Church Times blog. Nothing that interesting – most of them were just pictures of beige seating.

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13 Responses to “Elderly people”


  1. Aaron says:

    “There’s nothing particularly interesting or amusing about this holiday snap…”

    Au contraire, Mr. Walker! For a North American this snap is enormously funny. We don’t have signs depicting the elderly as stooped figures with canes, nor do we think it necessary to warn motorists about their presence…so it’s charmingly twisted, if you ask me!

    February 17th, 2009 at 2:33 am
  2. Anne says:

    Well, this has certainly come along on the right day. I needed a smile.

    My mom (affectionately known to people around here as Aged Mum) is unfortunately entering hospice care tomorrow. While this is sad and wrenching, the experience of getting her into the right place kind of resembles that sign. It was suggested by the hospital that I place her in a facility that has so many black marks it’s being monitored by the Feds. I respectfully declined to do that, and so she is going to a place operated by the Lutherans, where she’ll be regarded as a human being as opposed to a “bed occupant” to be served as cheaply as possible for maximum profit.

    So I can see myself standing in front of that sign with the responsibility of choosing one of the directions shown by the arrows. I think I got the right one.

    February 17th, 2009 at 2:42 am
  3. dennisthemennis says:

    Comment 1, I never thought of that way your right that’s funny.

    Maybe its a photo of the nurse checking the old guys hemorrhoids!

    February 17th, 2009 at 7:47 am
  4. Hugh says:

    If the elderly people have to go either side of the sign where do the rest of us go?

    February 17th, 2009 at 10:39 am
  5. Alison says:

    I sawa great sign on you-tube which was from New Zealand, near, presumably, a school and an old folks home, which read “Warning – Rugrats and old biddies all over the road.” It makes me laugh whenever I think about it – so much more up front than our sedate and polite signs. it was a link to a site that has lots of funny signs from other countries – check them out if you want a giggle.

    February 17th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
  6. Heather says:

    Is the sign suggesting that the elderly people should not be touching each other?

    Anne – hope all goes well for your Mum. When I met a doctor who treated my Mum as a person it made me cry.

    February 17th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
  7. Rachel says:

    My dad wants a sign attached to the end of his coffin, and yellow stripes on it. He wants it to say “Do not enter the box unless your exit is clear”. Perhaps your sign is a paraphrase, but the arrows would be better vertical up and down.

    February 18th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
  8. Russ says:

    Caution: divorce area for elderly couples. Relationship ahead, drive slowly, could go either way. Let’s hope they stay together for the sake of the children.

    February 20th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
  9. TimT says:

    Crivens! You have the ‘elderly people’ in the UK too, do you? There is no escape!

    February 23rd, 2009 at 2:56 am
  10. martin says:

    the elderly person at the back is slowly pick pocketing the one at the front.

    warning slow thieves in the area.

    February 26th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
  11. Grandmère Mimi says:

    I object! I am an elderly person, and what the sign says to me is that I don’t know where I’m going. It’s quite true that sometimes I don’t know where I’m going, but does that fact need to be displayed to the entire world?

    March 7th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
  12. Phil Groom says:

    It means elderly people can go whichever way they like: they’ve earned the privilege; but the rest of, well we’ve just gotta keep going straight ahead for now…

    March 10th, 2009 at 5:58 am
  13. Phil Groom says:

    “the rest of us” that should say, of course!

    March 10th, 2009 at 5:59 am