Unintended

[magid]

I saw this sentence yesterday, and it took me a while to realize what the writer had intended, which is not nearly as giggle-worthy.

"Hallways and bathrooms were painted on the classroom floors"

Comments

[aliza250.livejournal.com]

Ah, the joys of an ambiguous language.

[spwebdesign.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what the writer intended. Did he mean that the words were painted on the floors? Schools are bad enough without the kids pissing all over the classroom floor!

[magid.livejournal.com]

The writer was listing improvements made recently in a building that has classrooms on some stories, and performance space on other stories.

My first image was of a technical drawing painted on the floor of the classroom....

[spwebdesign.livejournal.com]

See, my first impression was of a one-room schoolhouse that couldn't afford an outhouse, so they had the hallways and bathrooms painted on the floor, perhaps in a corner where students could discreetly relieve themselves.

[zebraartist.livejournal.com]

too funny!
My journal must make you crazy - or provide much amusement! *grin*

[magid.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

Alas, there aren't so many one-room schoolhouses out there any more.

I remember reading something about a town with a one-room schoolhouse that the town wanted to keep running, but to do so, had to fit it out with a handicapped-accessible bathroom to meet statutes, though there weren't any people at the school who needed this accommodation. There wasn't room in the building, so they constructed a maze of covered ramps and walkways to the one accessible bathroom in the town hall...

[magid.livejournal.com]

Not so much...
typos are something that I can ignore if I choose, while this takes a particular talent to come up with :-).