Half a world away and more than half a lifetime ago...
My Dad once asked me to make a sign for the gate next to his workshop, one of those wide metal gates that spans a car-width, to say something like “Please Close the Gate” or “Close the Gate Behind You” or “Please Keep Closed” so that the sheep wouldn’t get out. He left the exact wording up to my seventeen-year-old discretion.
Which is how he ended up with a sign that read DO NOT OPEN.
4 May 2012