March 13, 2005

Doors and Perception


Bring me the head of the numbskull responsible for labeling this door:

Doors and Perception

It’s the front door of my local Hot ’n’ Crusty bakery. (Most of the food there is bad and overpriced, but I go there a couple of times a week to get a salad.) The PUSH label is on the outside of the glass, the PULL label on the inside. Every single time I’m about to enter or exit the store, my brain freezes for a moment as it tries to process which of the letters are backward and which are forward—and therefore whether I need to push or pull to open the door. The problem is compounded by the fact that the letters “U” and “H” look exactly the same backward and forward. Fixing this would require nothing more than a strip of thick white tape behind each of the two labels to hide each one from the opposite side of the glass.

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