This morning on the 16Y en route to work, I noticed the following sign above the front few seats: “Asientos reservados para personas mayores de edad y fiscamente incapacitadas” (emphasis mine). Uhh, they’re missing an I. It made me think of “fiscalmente“: “sorry, sir, these seats are for the fiscally handicapped…” Obviously, it’s “físicamente” (physically).
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Let’s get fiscal
This morning on the 16Y en route to work, I noticed the following sign above the front few seats: “Asientos reservados para personas mayores de edad y fiscamente incapacitadas” (emphasis mine). Uhh, they’re missing an I. It made me think of “fiscalmente“: “sorry, sir, these seats are for the fiscally handicapped…” Obviously, it’s “físicamente” (physically).
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Dude, I would say “What a pedestrian faux lengue!!” Mais, the double-entendre puny pun would force an asterisk onto my already fading reputation.
Pig out.
Asientos para las personas *fiscalmente* incapacitadas? Pues, éstos son para mí! Muévete!
For those of you who don’t know the Metro system in the DC area, the 16 line is the main bus route along Columbia Pike, the second busiest thoroughfare in Arlington, Virginia and on which I live. The Pike is the attention of a lot of urban renewal, and the Metro is dramatically increasing service along that corridor and implementing an advertising campaign to acknowledge the changes. There’s a very large Spanish-speaking population all along the Pike, and one of the self-reflexive ads the busses have started to display is one that says, simply, “Más Transit.” That’s my favorite of the entire campaign.