I’ve received a lot of emails from readers featuring bad grammar from their hometowns. These are awesome — I love them.
Here are five of my favorites:
Location: State and Burmont Roads, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania
I think we’ve found our companion for all the MENS signs everywhere. I needs to get me some shoes for my WOMANS!
Thanks, Jeff! This guy is my college roommate Kelly Anne’s brother, and he’s quite vocal in the comments. Check out his sweet movie blog here.
Location: Boone, North Carolina
I don’t know about you, but I have this image in my mind of a state park where two “caution trails” — fenced-in, easy-to-walk trails for those fearful of everything from snapes to mosquitos — merging, and everyone being too scared to cross.
And dog is must be on leash.
Thanks, Nicole!
Location: Men’s Room, somewhere in the Boston area
Andy, I’m not going to post the email you sent me, but seriously….are you trying to trip me up? Why would you send an email like that?
Hygienic is the correct spelling of the word, not hygenic. The sign uses both spellings.
Waterfree should be water-free, but it looks like that’s part of a brand name in this instance.
There’s an extra space between this and touch-free.
Weird.
Thanks, Andy. Check out his blog, once again.
Location: Athens, Ohio
I’m not sure what to do to it, but have been mulling it over for a few days and
then I heard about your blog! I was thinking of replacing “You” with
“Others,” butwould I have to put “Parking” before “Only” as well?
Strawn?
Thanks, Ashby!
Location: Crazy Dough’s Pizzeria, Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts
I hope all alcoholic beverages must be consumed on the premise that they will get you drunk pretty fast!
Thanks, Grammar Vandal Reader — and be sure to check out her blog.
The Grammar Vandal 
I’ve just discovered your blog, and I identify with you so strongly! I’m known – possibly even feared – among my friends for my keen eye and my distaste for badly spelled or punctuated signs. I’ve been collecting pictures of poor spelling, grammar and punctuation for about a year now, and I keep them over on 43things. Feel free to take a look, but make sure you have a strap of leather to bite down on (or even “upon which to bite down”!), because it’s stirring stuff. Lots of other 43thingers have taken up the challenge too, though some have missed the point entirely and use it purely to post amusing signs. This, I fear, is incredibly telling about people’s grasp of grammar and punctuation but, ironically, helps me prove my point. Keep up the good work!
Great pics! The “You will be towed” sign (and the sender’s email) was especially good.
Inappropriately, as soon as you say I’m vocal in the comments, I disappear to a place with no wifi. Thanks for posting my picture; I took a few more for you on the way home from my trip today.
You could also read the sign as naming one of the trails “Dog”. The “Dog” trail requires users to be on a leash. That would be an interesting sight.
Thanks for the refreshing blog. The “Ho-made Pies” made my day.
There is a sign at a store in my town that says:
“Ladie’s Shoes”.
Someday, I hope to get a photo.
ljc