That’s Stupid. Or are WE in Raleigh that stupid?

January 2, 2008

So, there is a plethora of planters down Raleigh’s nouveau main street, Fayetteville Street. The planters themselves caused kind of a design ruckus back when they were unveiled, but we’ve all gotten used to them for the most part. They do have a sense of attractiveness about them…

But the above pic doesn’t tell the full story. Every single planter actually looks like this:

I don’t know if you can tell, but those planters aren’t very big. And they’re on pedestals, so you gotta work to get up into them (not that I know that personally). But the sign itself made me stand there (beside, not in, the planter) and contemplate the following:

• How would you get into the planter without hurting yourself or getting really dirty?
• Is the dirt in the planter flat enough to provide a comfortable standing or sitting surface?
• If you sat in the planter and rocked, would the planter fall?
• How would you sit in the planters that have the big 4ft pine sprig sticking outta the center of it??
• What would happen to you if you did sit in the planter? Are there planter police?
• How many people have already done this to warrant the centerpiece of each arrangement being this sign?

I wish they would have signed it, “The Management.” That would have completed the stupidness…but maybe they were trying to be more subtle than that.

Stumble it!

Tags: , Fayetteville Street, signage