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November 29, 2006 12:03 AM
Broken: Cape Cod restaurant sign
Rhea Becker submits a picture of a sign taken in Provincetown, Massachusetts:
This sign reads "Parking while dinning at Napi's 5 pm dinner only."
It belongs to a restaurant named Napi's - a restaurant that has been around for a very long time, here in Cape Cod.
Is the sign trying to inform me that parking is only available for dinner at 5 pm?
Or is it trying to say that you can only park while dining at Napi's - and that dinner is at 5 pm?
You would think that since they have been around for awhile that they would have had plenty of time to fix their sign!
God-for-bid THEY...
(Sorry for stealing your second place, but I AM a perfectionist.)
Also, in order for this to not be "spam", I'd like to say, the actual meaning of the sign is:
Only parking while DINING (not dinning, another thing that's broken) at Napi's at 5pm.
Apparently, they have had plenty of time to fix their sign. It's obvious that they tacked the "ONLY" bar over something else that USED to be there -- presumably, to clarify something that was once even more unclear. :-(
I would just like to point out that in the UK, a "nappy" is what Americans call a "diaper".
I don't care what time dinner is, I'm not going. ;-)
I suspect they mean:
"Only parking while dining"
"Dinner starts at 5pm"
"Bar opens at 10pm" (Replace bar with happy hour, or something of that nature)
I don't see any ambiguity in the sign.
This parking is for patrons dining at Napi's for dinner - which is at 5PM.
I think you may be reading too much into it, assuming they mean something more than what they're actually saying.
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FIRST!
They are in dire need of a new *organized* sign... is it that hard to paint a new piece of plywood? (Heh, God-for-bid get a real professional sign!)
~Max
Posted by: Max at November 29, 2006 12:14 AM