Everywhere there's signs...

[cheshcat]

I meant to post this with the last big entry, but forgot...

Riding the bus from Heathrow to Oxford, I saw this on a road sign -- and laughed at how very English it was:

Think. Don't Phone Whilst Driving.

;)

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[cheshcat]

*grin* Thanks, hon. *kiss*

[max_ambiguity]

It's the "think" part, right?

This reminds me that when I was in the supermarket yesterday I was accosted by the cheese manager who accused me of being English because I was buying Cheshire cheese and he doesn't like it. I shrugged it off once and asked about Stilton cheese, but he insisted on coming back to it even though I said I was not English, but American. I suppose I knew that he meant my ancestors, but still.

[cheshcat]

And this was in Pitt? How bizarre to be accosted just because you are buying cheese. Is it your fault he has to keep Cheshire in stock? :P

*grin* It was the "whilst" part. I have never seen that on an American sign and expect I never will. Plus here they use apostrophes correctly, to my neverending joy!

[max_ambiguity]

Yeah, Pittsburgh can be very local sometimes. Only we don't make any cheese that I know of, so I don't know why we should be insular about cheeses. The store has a pretty good cheese selection, actually. Just no blueberry stilton.