Comments on: Photo of the day: Be aware of glass door!!! http://whitneyhess.com/blog/2009/07/02/photo-of-the-day-be-aware-of-glass-door/ Improving the human experience one day at a time Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:24:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Whitney Hess http://whitneyhess.com/blog/2009/07/02/photo-of-the-day-be-aware-of-glass-door/comment-page-1/#comment-4057 Whitney Hess Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:12:58 +0000 http://whitneyhess.com/blog/?p=1832#comment-4057 Ouch! Never put an oasis behind a glass door at the end of a long hallway :) Ouch! Never put an oasis behind a glass door at the end of a long hallway :)

]]> By: Antoine E Butler Sr http://whitneyhess.com/blog/2009/07/02/photo-of-the-day-be-aware-of-glass-door/comment-page-1/#comment-3925 Antoine E Butler Sr Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:02:10 +0000 http://whitneyhess.com/blog/?p=1832#comment-3925 Probably not the best example as it's sans glass, but I found it equally amusing. On travel this past weekend, I walked through the little portable tunnel to board my flight. The line wasn't moving so my eyes wandered up (yes on the ceiling of the walkway), when I noticed a sign that read "CAUTION (UNIDENTIFIABLE SYMBLE)> UNEVEN SURFACES".<br><br>I first thought it was too "wordy" to be effective, when a shorter or more common phrase could be used better. For example "Watch Your Step". Then I wondered why would it be on the ceiling, fixating my eyes away from the floor would surely increase my odds of tripping.<br><br>Then I realized, much like you did - that it's there for a reason. Wandering eyes were likely the cause of many people tripping, after all that's where I was looking rather than ahead of me. Probably not the best example as it's sans glass, but I found it equally amusing. On travel this past weekend, I walked through the little portable tunnel to board my flight. The line wasn't moving so my eyes wandered up (yes on the ceiling of the walkway), when I noticed a sign that read “CAUTION (UNIDENTIFIABLE SYMBLE)> UNEVEN SURFACES”.

I first thought it was too “wordy” to be effective, when a shorter or more common phrase could be used better. For example “Watch Your Step”. Then I wondered why would it be on the ceiling, fixating my eyes away from the floor would surely increase my odds of tripping.

Then I realized, much like you did – that it's there for a reason. Wandering eyes were likely the cause of many people tripping, after all that's where I was looking rather than ahead of me.

]]> By: murrayw76 http://whitneyhess.com/blog/2009/07/02/photo-of-the-day-be-aware-of-glass-door/comment-page-1/#comment-3922 murrayw76 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:23:15 +0000 http://whitneyhess.com/blog/?p=1832#comment-3922 A couple of friends live in a house with screen doors that lead from a porch to their backyard. Since the mesh is almost imperceptible after dusk, several inattentive partiers have walked through them, so I took a couple of paper plates and drew faces on them with speech bubbles that said stuff like, "Please don't walk into me!" They were up for a while without any more accidents, but since this solution wasn't exactly sophisticated, I suggested that they paint a horizontal stripe, matching the trim, at about waist height instead. A couple of friends live in a house with screen doors that lead from a porch to their backyard. Since the mesh is almost imperceptible after dusk, several inattentive partiers have walked through them, so I took a couple of paper plates and drew faces on them with speech bubbles that said stuff like, “Please don't walk into me!” They were up for a while without any more accidents, but since this solution wasn't exactly sophisticated, I suggested that they paint a horizontal stripe, matching the trim, at about waist height instead.

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