I find myself staying in a hotel where ‘Do Not Disturb’ is taken to mean ‘Do Disturb, Constantly, At Regular Intervals, Without Regard’.
@realmattlucas
Anyone passing beyond this point wearing plaid trousers or white shoes will be arrested.
Bill Bryson, The Last Continent (on what he half expected to see at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island — the most hoity toity and obnoxious institution he’d ever come across.)














FURTHER READING
Signs You’ll Never Read In Your Office’s Communal Kitchen from The Hairpin
Header: Fernand Léger (1881-1955) French, The City, 1919