Normative Signs: The Poetry of "Ought"

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

Kayak Wash Station

by Chris MacDonald

Here’s an interesting permissive sign. It’s a “Kayak Wash Area” sign, posted in the parking garage of a condo building in Victoria, British Columbia.

Thanks to Daniel Weinstock for sending this one. Daniel points out that this sign seems to imply that it’s not ok to wash kayaks anywhere else in the garage, and perhaps that in other parts of the garage one washes other things (surf boards?). Only on the west coast could such designated areas be required, or perhaps even plausible.