[HPFGU-OTChatter] What does this say about the locals?

[Kathryn Cawte]

> **delurk**
>
> I was in town (Weston-super-Mare, England) earlier today and noticed
> this sign on the glass door of one of the shops:
>
> "This door is shut.  Please do not walk into it.  Thank you for your
> cooperation."
>
> I can understand needing a sign or marker on the door for the
> visually impaired or downright stupid, but what amazes me is that
> the customers are *thanked* for not walking into the door.  Either
> the shop owner has a deliciously dry sense of humour or the locals
> are more inbred than I first realised.
>
> Mary Ann, who only walks into things when she loses her glasses
>
>

Perhaps he means "Thank you for not walking into my door, breaking it and
causing me to spend a lot of money replacing it while simultaneously having
to hire a lawyer to fight your claim that it's my fault you walked into it
in the first place."

I guess thank you for your cooperation is just easier to write :)

K