By now already two days ago during my short morning commute to the university, I saw a bus that had “Christmas Party” written on its electronic display at the front. Unfortunately, I did not have the time to get my camera and take a picture. Was that a joke? Was that an early practice run? Was that…?
I was a bit puzzled when I saw this sign for the first time. Does it mean that one is not allowed to walk here between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m.? After some reflecting and searching my brain for the rules that I know, I think it means that pedestrians do not solely own this stretch of the street during that time frame, but that it becomes a regular street on which cars can travel and pedestrians have to stick to the sidewalk.
Who would have thought that “no parking” signs are also used for benches? I must check the Luxembourgish road rules to make sure that I did not miss other important rules.
Profile pages of social networking services can be a mineful of fascinating categories as we have already seen with YouTube. The services want to add a personal touch and not just provide the standard questionnaire to fill in. As I signed up for my flickr account today, I took a look at the profile page and smiled when I saw the category “Singleness”.
It’s a nice change to the regular “marital status” category found on official documents. Does this category also suggest that singleness becomes more dominant? And what does “Open” mean? Open for a relationship? Open for an affair? If it implies the first one, open for a relationship, does “Single” imply “I don’t want to date and I am happy that I am alone and want to stay alone”?
