You, oh café owner, might think you are being cute, or clever, or witty, or enhancing the themed design of your café. But to anyone with children who are old enough to go to the loo on their own, but not old enough to interpret which the right loo is from your oh-so-amusing signage, you are an annoyance. You are the difference between me enjoying a cup of coffee in peace, and me having to get up, leave the table, walk across the café, and interpret loo signs with a child, when I don't even need to go to the loo myself. That is annoying.
This applies to you, if you are the owner of the cafés I've been in where the loos are designated:
- M/F
- Bruces/Sheilas (ok, so that one was in an Australian-themed restaurant, but couldn't there be easy-to-understand signs as well as the atmosphere-enhancing titles?)
- Messieurs/Mesdames (same point)
- A picture of a deer's head with antlers/A picture of deer's head without antlers
- A moustache/A symbol that looked like a head with a pony tail - but who knows?
- A man's shoe/A woman's shoe
- The circle with the arrow pointing North East/The circle with the cross at the bottom (what ARE those symbols called? Is it Mars and Venus? And I bet there's a café somewhere with signs saying Mars and Venus on the toilet doors too.)
I've been noticing them for several years now - ever since my oldest reached toilet-independence age. Have you seen any annoying ones recently? Can't we just stick to something like this one here?
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