Sometimes speakers of other languages do their best to try and help English speakers by making signs in English. The results are sometimes surprising, to say the least!
| 1. In a Bucharest hotel lobby: |
| The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable |
| 2. In a Paris hotel elevator: |
| Please leave your values at the front desk |
| 3. In a hotel in Athens: |
| Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the hours of 9 and 11 A.M. daily |
| 4. In a Serbian hotel: |
| The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of the chambermaid |
| 5. In a Japanese hotel: |
| You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid |
| 6. In the lobby of a Moscow hotel across from a Russian Orthodox monastery: |
| You are welcome to visit the cemetery where famous Russian and Soviet composers, artists and writers are buried daily except Thursday |
| 7. Outside a Hong Kong tailor shop: |
| Ladies may have a fit upstairs |
| 8. In a Bangkok dry cleaner's: |
| Drop your trousers here for best results |
| 9. In a Rhodes tailor shop: |
| Order your summers suit. Because is big rush we will execute customers in strict rotation |
| 10. A sign posted in Germany's Black forest: |
| It is strictly forbidden on our black forest camping site that people of different sex, for instance, men and women, live together in one tent unless they are married with each other for that purpose |
| 11. In an advertisement by a Hong Kong dentist: |
| Teeth extracted by latest Methodist |
| 12. In a Swiss mountain inn: |
| Special today - no ice cream |
| 13. In a Copenhagen airline ticket office: |
| We take your bags and send them in all directions |
| 14. In a Norwegian cocktail lounge: |
| Ladies are requested not to have children in the bar |
| 15. In the office of a Roman doctor: |
| Specialist in women and other diseases |
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