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Author Topic: Why does the restroom sign at every Home Depot swing back and forth endlessly? Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 01-15-2008 09:39 PM                     The title says it all. Note there are always two restroom signs in a Home Depot. One over the cash registers and the other in the back. The one in the back always hangs still from it's two wires, but the one by the registers is ALWAYS swinging back and forth, yet no other signs in the store have movement to them. The most logical guess is that the AC system is carefully aimed at it, but even that is iffy since you cannot feel the air movement when standing on the other side of the sign. I have yet to find a Home Depot where this was not the case.  |  IP: Logged Jason Black Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1723 From: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 01-15-2008 10:27 PM                        The most logical explanation I could offer is the fact that the registers are at the front of the store. With the opening and closing of the doors all day, the air flow up higher could cause a disturbance in the signage as it hangs freely... ??  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 01-15-2008 10:28 PM                     ..makes you wonder if it's a marketing/adv ploy to attract attention or other... since people love to watch moving things that attract attention... ..wild guess here though...  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-15-2008 11:06 PM                     If memory serves correctly most Home depot stores have heaters hanging up front as well... probably with the combination of open/closing doors and the heat being produced by the heaters would make cause for some air turbulence. Mark  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-15-2008 11:37 PM                        Why would there be restroom signs over the cash registers? Is Home Depot into "alternative" forms of payment or something?  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 01-16-2008 02:13 AM                     Well Joe, it's nickname is the Homo Depot, supposedly due to their "cruisy restrooms". Still though, none of the other signs over the cash registers swing. In fact that is the only sign in the building that moves.  |  IP: Logged Allison Parsons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 630 From: East Peoria, IL Registered: Oct 2004 posted 01-16-2008 03:14 AM                        quote: Brad Miller only sign in the building that moves. Yes, but does it have rhythm...?  |  IP: Logged Evans A Criswell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1579 From: Huntsville, AL, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 01-23-2008 04:19 PM                        It's a subliminal message about rhythm and hanging freely.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 01-23-2008 04:45 PM                  quote: Brad Miller ...it's nickname is the Homo Depot, supposedly due to their "cruisy restrooms". Well Grand-Poopie-BAH Administrator I assume you speak from personal experience??? Those restrooms, with the exception to Rockwall/Dallas Texas, are NOT homo sanctuaries for gays. They are in no way on par with people like those Airport Restroom Sex preverts like Senator Larry "I am not gay" Craig. Get Real!  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-23-2008 05:54 PM                        And you've traveled the world ranking these restrooms?  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 01-23-2008 11:23 PM                  Yes I have, Joe... It's more fun than playing video games...  |  IP: Logged Jim Bedford Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 597 From: Telluride, CO, USA (733 mi. WNW of Rockwall, TX but it seems much, much longer) Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-24-2008 09:01 AM                        There's a simple answer to Brad's question and that is that the restroom signs in Home Depot's are in a different, less stable dimension than the stores are. They try not to swing but do, proving they are really from somewhere else. It's a dead giveaway. And yes, I've viewed the security tapes and Phil has been seen in all of them. His "wide stance" gave him away but he was only inspecting.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-24-2008 11:08 AM                        The signs are stationary....it's the building that's moving.  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 01-24-2008 11:48 AM                        I can see the coffeetable book now: "Great Thronerooms of the World" by Phil Hill! Louis  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 01-24-2008 01:54 PM                     Too late Louis, it's already been done by the architectural photographer and broadcaster Lucinda Lambton. Link She's a rather eccentric character, terribly enthusiastic about everything. I've met Lucinda a couple of times; She really is quite mad. Sadly, I can't find any video of her on line at the moment. She was a friend of the late poet Sir John Betjeman, who was also tireless campaigner for Britain's Victorian buildings. Lucinda John Some of her books are on Amazon here Sadly, most of them seem to be out of print. I want to get a copy of 'Vanishing Victoriana', and I see that shes also written a book about America, 'Old New World' [ 01-24-2008, 03:47 PM: Message edited by: Adam Martin ]  |  IP: Logged

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