Design
Why Does This Bench Need an Instruction Sign?
Has the city's public-works department gone rogue?
Lately it would seem that someone inside the St. Paul* public works department has gone off the OCD deep end, sticking everyday street objects with labels expressing taxonomy and proper "care."
The above bench requires real-estate ads to be applied every two years and benefits greatly from an occasional wipe-down, according to a new sign standing next to it. Caretakers should "keep [it] warm with butt" and place it "where lazy people should stand." Oh, and it has a new name: Hortus Ortus Scaminum, a curious Latinate phrase regarding a "garden" or "park."