Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Why does the restroom sign at every Home Depot swing back and forth endlessly?

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 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.

Posted by Jason Black (Member # 684) on 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... ??

Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 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...

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 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

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 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?

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 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.

Posted by Allison Parsons (Member # 2728) on 01-16-2008, 03:14 AM:

quote: Brad Miller
only sign in the building that moves.

Yes, but does it have rhythm...? [Roll Eyes]

Posted by Evans A Criswell (Member # 381) on 01-23-2008, 04:19 PM:

It's a subliminal message about rhythm and hanging freely. [Smile]

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 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!

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 01-23-2008, 05:54 PM:

And you've traveled the world ranking these restrooms? [Wink]

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 01-23-2008, 11:23 PM:

Yes I have, Joe...

It's more fun than playing video games...

Posted by Jim Bedford (Member # 4) on 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.

Posted by Frank Angel (Member # 248) on 01-24-2008, 11:08 AM:

The signs are stationary....it's the building that's moving.

Posted by Louis Bornwasser (Member # 3063) on 01-24-2008, 11:48 AM:

I can see the coffeetable book now: "Great Thronerooms of the World" by Phil Hill! Louis

Posted by Stephen Furley (Member # 1277) on 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 ]

Posted by Chris Slycord (Member # 4239) on 01-25-2008, 01:04 AM:

Maybe they made the signs move so that there were less idiots asking where the bathroom was? If the sign were made of something shiny as well, it'd get the idiots' attention immediately.

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 01-25-2008, 02:02 AM:

If that was the case all they needed to do was change the wording from "restroom" to "shitter". Plus by using that terminology, they could've made a sign only about a foot large and come away with more people noticing it. [evil]

Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 01-25-2008, 09:19 AM:

Maybe it has to go to the bathroom...

Posted by Edwin Schwing (Member # 1270) on 01-26-2008, 01:16 AM:

Maybe Brad has to look at other things while at Home Depot!

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 01-26-2008, 01:44 AM:

I still need to stop by a Home Depot to see this for myself, but I haven't had reason to go in.