These people who put little signs on the road outside their houses saying ‘Polite notice: no parking’: if it’s so polite, why do they never say please?
And would it be pedantic to point out that the use of 'polite' in this context is inappropriate anyway, because there is nothing polite about assertion of control over a space to which you have no claim?
‘Impertinent notice: no parking’ would make more sense, but this would probably not be explainable to the author of the sign.
As for those people who stick ‘No turning’ notices at the space at the end of their driveway: one can only hope that they will continue to prompt all right-thinking people to use these spaces for turning whenever they have the opportunity, even when there is no obvious reason to be doing any turning.
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I once saw someone painting the boulders on 'his' grass verge white; these being the meteorite sized rocks positioned/placed to stop the afore mentioned parking and turning. How those winter nights must fly by.
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