Jargon Alert

[Geoff]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at ...> wrote:
>
> 
> > Geoff:
> > I'm currently on the Isles of Scilly on holiday and 
> > using the communal Internet room.
> > 
> > Yesterday, I passed the site of the new island school
> > and found the following treasure:
> > 
> > "Please note that the footpath past the site of the 
> > new Five Islands Senior School has been diverted to
> > reduce the risk of serious interface between 
> > construction traffic and pedestrians."
> > 
> > Put in simpler terms - 2please avoid the builder's lorries!"
> >
> 
> Annemehr:
> 
> Wow, Geoff, I can't believe they bothered to put all that onto a sign!  (Somehow, it's easier to believe they'd type it out in a memo or something.)
> 
> There's one that gets to me, though it's in a bit of a different vein: I work at a Joann Fabric & Craft store, and we're instructed to call the customers "guests."  Senior management, darlings, if they were really guests you'd be *giving* the stuff away.
> 
> The customers laugh when they hear it, too - they're not fooled in the least.
 
Geoff:

If I'd seen this before I returned from the Isles last night (Friday), I'd 
have taken a photograph....

Following up your own comment, there has been a lot of joking for 
some years since the various railway companies in the UK were told
to refer to passengers as "customers". Quite a few travellers took 
umbrage about this, commenting that they were not buying things 
in a shop....