




Thank You The MGMT by Burn Unit
April 6th, 2007 3:39 AMA coffee shop and a bagel shop near my work share a common back-hallway bathroom. My first inspiration was to put a sign in that bathroom like those signs you see on lots of businesses. Thus THIS DOOR TO REMAIN OPEN DURING BUSINESS HOURS Thank you the MGMT went on the inside of the men's room stall. Hopefully the reaction will be baffled at best--do they mean I can't lock the stall? or like, I can't close it at all?
Then I figured since the only reasons to use that back hallway were to go to and from the bathrooms or to--very rarely--use the payphone in there, which I'm not even sure works--I figured something that would make it more confusing and contradictory would be a sign on the door between the bathroom hall and the coffee shop: NO ENTRY FROM RESTROOM. Hopefully, some of the people went into the bathroom, came back out and stood there, wondering "wtf? do I have to go around? was that a one-way door?" Seriously, I cannot state that enough, I have never seen anybody go through those doors except to get to and from the restroom.
I posted these first signs right at the start of the noon rush, when the bagel shop does pretty brisk business. I came back at 545 and ...the signs were still there! both in the restroom and on the coffee shop door. I was so tickled, I stuck a sign on the bagel shop door too. That way it would be really confusing if both doors say "no entry from restroom." Man if I wasn't a regular there, I'd be like... knocking on those doors once I was in that hallway.
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Way to confuse people when they're stepping out of their automatic motions already.
I can see that I'm going to have to work/think extra hard on how I'm finishing this task, now. :)
Heh, I like it. Hit people where they are on auto-pilot and (strangely) most vulnerable. Nice work.
(And stop tricking me into voting for your awesome task completions, dammit!)
The signs were there in the early a.m. Fri and gone by ten. The bathroom stall sign, however, was still there at 1215 Friday got a pic which I'll upload. Haven't been back yet, but I expect to see it on Mon.
This completion is AWESOME. Love it. Also love Koyâh's reference to the Illuminatus! Trilogy (one of my favorite literary works of all time).
Great work!
Thanks Joe! We miss ol RAW, the world seems a little smaller without him, though so much bigger than it was before him...
wow, that is sheer brilliance. seriously, I love it!!
You pegged it.
This task was inspired by the midget who would go around signing things "Thank you the Mgt."
Poor old RAW I went to his memorial, but I was really bummed that there was not any lasagna. It was mostly the shadow of the man and not the substance.
Good one, since your a regular you should see how long it takes for the signs to come down. Having read the Illuminatus Trilogy you probably understand that the underlying point of this task is that no-one questions authority and anyone in authority is so out of touch they don't even notice these things. I think we both get tickled over throwing a wrench in the gears of complacency.
This would be really great at a place where the MGMT has there own bathroom, hence would never see the signs.