I saw the sign, and blogged about it

You know what really pisses me off? Signs that don't make sense. The only thing worse is a sign that makes perfect sense at first, until the moron who put it up explains that in his little world it means something completely different and gets pissed at me for not seeing the moron's interpretation first. Case in point:

There is a coffee shop in Boulder that I go to a lot. In the window next to the door, there is a sign that says "Bad dogs make bad shoppers- no biting, peeing or pooping." Now I know most places in the U.S. (especially restaurants) don't allow dogs, but I remember seeing that sign and thinking, "That's cool that they recognize that not all dogs are bad and allow well behaved ones." Today, I was up in Boulder hanging out with my friend's dog and I decided to take her for a walk and get some coffee since we weren't far. When we came in a guy ran up and said, "You can't have a dog in here, it is a health code violation!" Now this is about what you would expect anywhere else but due to the sign I was very confused. I took the dog outside and tied her up and when I came back I asked about the sign. "Well behaved dogs are allowed outside," the guy explained, "you can't have a dog inside a restaurant anywhere in boulder."

Well no shit, Sherlock. I didn't need a freaking sign to know that dogs were allowed OUTSIDE, that's the only place they are always allowed!!! And even if that is the case, why the hell would you post the sign INSIDE the restaurant?? I realize that the message he was trying to convey was all true but the fact of the matter is that this is a case in which the sign does more to confuse the sign reader than convey information. In fact, you would probably be much better off with no sign at all than with a sign that conveys the exact OPPOSITE of what you mean!!!

It probably wouldn't have bothered me so much if they hadn't been such dicks about it, like I was the idiot for not knowing "well behaved dogs only" meant "no dogs allowed." I wasn't even really greatly inconvenienced, it just pissed me off how dumb they were.