On a crisp fall day in 2018, I visited Bennington, Vermont. In pursuit of fresh cider doughnuts, I stopped off at a farm store. At the entrance, I came face to face with this sign, which I still think about regularly:

I love it so much. It’s just so very intriguing! Let us review what it tells us: There was an unspecified “incident”. The incident was severe enough to delay the store’s opening. However, as the store normally opened at 8:30 AM, the incident was only so severe as to push back opening by one half-hour. Indeed, the incident was not so severe that a note couldn’t be put up.

The cherry on top is that I took that picture at 11:48 AM, and the store was indeed open. For nearly three hours, no one had remembered to take down this eight word gem, and I’m very glad they forgot. Nearly seven years later, I still haven’t.