Reusable Sharps?

In my humble opinion, formatting the text as

REUSABLE

SHARPS CONTAINER

would have been a lot less ambiguous. And less dangerous!

2 – 4 People Max

Sign on a table at Qdoba during COVID.

How is this different (or better) than “4 People Max”, or “1 – 4 People Limit”?

Saffron Threads: Let’s Do The Math, Shall We?

Saffron is expensive. VERY expensive.
Or is it?
Let’s take a look at this inconsistent labeling & do the math two ways.

Take a look at the price/jar, the price/pound, and the weight of the saffron contents.

The jar says it holds 0.01 oz of Saffron Threads.
The price of the jar is $19.99.
So that would be …

MATH CALCULATIONS ONE
19.99 for .01 oz
$1,999 for 1 oz.
$31,984 for 1 lb (16 oz.)

So … $32K for a pound of Saffron Threads! That IS expensive!
(And the math is correct.)

BUT WAIT … the sign says “$19.99 per pound”!
At that price, the jar should only cost 1¼¢ !

MATH CALCULATIONS TWO
$19.99 for 16 oz
$1.25 for one oz.
$0.0125 for .01 oz
1¼¢ for the jar!
And if you buy two, you get a third one free!

By the way … this was in Cambridge, Mass.

Last month, I bought some saffron in Greenwich, NY, and it was “only” $3.50 for 0.0141 oz.
A BARGAIN at less than $4K per pound!

Two Restaurant “Menu” Fails

This post combines two pet peeves. The first is when someone designing a web page for a restaurant (especially a mobile one) kinda forgets that in this context the word “menu” can have two different meanings. And you shouldn’t use both meanings in the same, well, menu.

To the left, the word “MENU” means “software page selection menu”. Tap it, and one of your options is “Menu”, for the list of available foods & prices. Brought to you this week by the Extra Large Department of Extras.

The second is a more specific case of a restaurant not doing a good job of testing their web site to see how it actually works.

Look: We have five menus: FOOD; GLUTEN FREE; DESSERT; DRINK; and … is that a CHAT Menu I see?

Let’s scroll down an inch & see…

Nope! It’s the BOTTLE menu. Perhaps the designer had sampled a few too many of the bottles?

This Could Cause an Accident!

Ad for Dumbo Moving & Storage in NYC

This is a very eye-catching ad.

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But consider where they placed it.

This could cause an accident!

Whither the Silver Line?

The Red Line subway platform at South Station, Boston.

The sign above says that the Silver Line to Dudley is this exit.

The sign on the wall says “No Silver Line Access”.

How is a tourist supposed to know that there are multiple Silver Lines, at two locations, and the upper sign refers to only the SL4 line to Dudley, which boards at street level, and the “No Silver Line Access” sign refers only to the other lines that board underground: the SL1 to Logan Airport, the SL2 to the Design Center, the SL3 to Chelsea , and the SLW to Silver Line Way?