Normative Signs: The Poetry of "Ought"

In which the author finds beauty in how people tell other people what to do.

Paid Parking But Unless Except

by Chris MacDonald

This is at a grocery store near my house. It directs people to pay for parking. And it notes that parking is for shoppers. But what’s less clear is that parking is free if you’re shopping. So I regularly see people standing staring at the sign, trying to interpret what it means, whether it applies to them, etc.