Can You Read the Sign on the Wall?: Weird Bathroom Signs From Around the World

We’ve all seen them, weird signs in the bathroom.  Sometimes restaurants get cute and use other names for men and women like lads and lassies.  We’ve all seen signs about washing your hands or ads for various products.  Or those symbols that are supposed to clarify things for people of every language except sometimes they don’t make any sense at all.

By Flickr User Carbon NYC

This is one of the weirdest and creepiest signs I’ve ever seen.  I’m hoping that it was supposed to be a rendering of a Dad taking his child to the bathroom in New York.  It does sort of scream out as being a advertisement for Man-Boy Love or something like that though.  And the really weird part is the alien arm.  Who’s arm looks like that?  Is it a tentacle?  What the heck???

By Flickr User bitshaker

This is a sign at the California Adventure park but it still makes very little sense.  Is it the washroom?  Is it the fish gutting room?  What does the men’s bathroom sign look like?

By Flickr User Matt Perreault

Here’s a great example of when vandalism improves a sign.  It’s just a regular bathroom sign for employees of a restaurant but someone’s has cranked it up a notch.  Wash your Hands because “Remember: You are gonna be some zombie’s food!”.  You definitely want to be nice and squeaky clean for those crazy zombies.  I know how much they hate dirty hands!!!  I guess Oregon is full of zombies!

By Flickr User arvindgrover

Here’s another bathroom reminder for employees to clean up after using the facilities.  This restaurant is a little more lax than others though as you only have to have one clean hand.  Maybe it’s Captain Hook’s restaurant.  You’d think they’d also mention keeping your hook clean though.