I've had this cognitive tick for as long as I remember. I hate public wastes of attention - specifically verbose, obtuse signs, I'm always correcting them in my head, occasionally I collect them too.
An early example from Spitalfields in 2007:
It could just say 'open'.
Or this, from yesterday. It could just say 'please shut the door' (you don't really need the please, but I don't mind a bit of politeness.)
On a slightly different tip, you see these all over town:
They're obviously making some minimal effort to engage people but the design of it is so opaque. How does WHAT affect me? What's the THIS? They've made the wrong bit big, and because that means that every sign looks the same from a distance you just don't look that closely. Ugh.
