It's funny, but it's also serious. I fear that our lives are so full of unnecessary and useless clutter that we often miss things that we need to see, because our brains have been trained to filter out most of it.

A partial solution might be to limit certain kinds of signs from certain venues and to disbar and publicly cane lawyers who bring suits based on the lack of signs that say obvious things.

You can't get lawn jarts any more, because a guy's kid was killed with one and the package failed to warn him that hurling a 1 pound spike in the vicinity of a small child was potentially hazardous.