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It's always fun to see a sign and deliberately take it as posted. For instance we passed a store advertising the following

      INFANT
TERRY SLEEPER
      2

Well, obviously any parent knows they are selling the terrycloth sleepers for infants at $2 each.

However..

Taking the sign as posted it can be taken several ways.

First, as a horror movie - It creeps, it crawls, it uses it's cuteness to disarm you. It's the Infant Terry Sleeper...2

Second, as a birth announcement - of an infant called Terry Sleeper the Second.

Third, as an announcement - that there are two infants called Terry Sleeper.

Fourth, a sales ad - Having trouble getting your infant Terry to sleep? Worry no more with these patented Terry Sleepers, guaranteed to get your little ones to sleep in no time. Now for only $2. Disclaimer, will not work on infants not named Terry.

Did I mention I have a weird sense of humour? Although the first one was my husband's contribution. :)

Signs are really fun when they use abbreviations.  Because whoever puts them together just doesn't bother reading them. Especially when using Assorted because they always use just the first three letters. That's right, anything assorted becomes an ass.

It gets really fun when the same abbreviation can mean more than one word. Most of us understand what is meant and automatically interpret correctly. But now, imagine English is not your first language and you're trying to interpret abbreviations. It's no wonder people who learn English as a second language have trouble with it.

This is one I saw the other day

Ret. Most common meanings are retired, returned, and retro(active), But I've also seen it used for retail and retainer. In this case it was for a retainer since it was listing a service and ended Ret. Req. meaning retainer required.

Req is another confusing one since it can mean required or requested. It helps that in either case it means something is needed and can usually be figured out from the rest of the sign or advertisement.

But I think the sign I'll remember for a while was this one:

Ass Breath Mints 1.99

I just walked away trying not to giggle.