An Exercise in Irony
September 25th 2008 03:07 pm
Here’s something fun.
Get your camera, and head over the University of Alberta Hospital, 114 Street Entrance. Why bring your camera, you may ask. Yes, I just gave you permission, so go ahead and ask.
Alright well I’ll tell you.
What you’ll see are benches. On those benches are no smoking signs. The benches sit on the sidewalk, or patio, whatever you want to call it. On that patio are sandwich board signs, also displaying the no smoking sign.
What’s interesting about this whole scenario, is that sitting on the bench and standing next to the sign are people. And they are smoking.
There is more than one person obviously. Oh there couldn’t be just one or two! That wouldn’t be fun. There is usually anywhere from 5 to 10 people out there at a time, and they are typically all smoking.
Oh the irony. The location where the most no smoking signs are located is the area of congregation for all the smokers in the hospital.
Take some pictures. It doesn’t get much better than this.
About the author... Daniel Huckstep is a software engineer(ing student) at the University of Alberta. He enjoys all aspects of computers and their software, reptiles, guitar and music creation, reading, and macaroni salad. 
