Monday, March 4, 2019

More bad signs

Like many American public libraries, we have a green road sign out on the nearest main road that points to the library. It looks like of like this:
File:Library-road-sign.jpg
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Library-road-sign.jpg

But of course ours is attached to a metal pole. I don't drive by it on my way to work. This week two different patrons came in to tell us that someone had turned the arrow around so that it pointed the other way, away from the library. I ended up having to spend an hour on the phone with the city's Streets department while they decided whose job it was to come out and flip it back around.

Every time I start thinking maybe I've seen all the major variations of facilities issues, something like this happens.

5 comments:

  1. At our library the city took down the "Library" sign during some construction and it took 3 years for them to put it back

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    1. Grrrrr! And I'm sure tons of patrons came to ask why "you" took down the sign and when "you" were going to put it back up...

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    2. yes, or just helpfully told us it used to be there and it was gone......we just smiled and said yes the city is working on it

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  2. the patron on the sign looks odd, but harmless

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