Architectural designer to client: “Hey, see that clearly visible metal railing that marks the ramp into your shop entrance. You know, the one that sticks out into the really busy pedestrian thoroughfare?”
Client: “Why yes, I do know it. It is a bit old school and boring isn’t it?”
Designer: ” Exactly. Let’s make it modern and exciting and clad it in vibrant expensive toughened GLASS. And let’s get rid of that metal bit at the end. So dull!”
Client: “Yes! Yes! Glass is the future! Please get right on it and prepare a suitably large invoice for your vision.”
Several weeks later…
Client: “There’s a problem. Because it’s glass people keep walking up the ramp by mistake or walking straight into the end bit because it’s not easy to see. They’re hurting themselves too.”
Designer: “No problem. That’s easily fixed… (pulls out roll of cheap hazard tape and gets busy)…”
Designer: “There. Done. I’ll invoice you for the work later.”
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Amazing !
Brilliant point – well made. Handy you had a ‘before’ photo – you might invoice the invoicer. I have double vision. Even with corrective lenses this is the sort of dopey object I’d smash into.
My dad once walked into the glass door of a restaurant. Hard.
Yes a very badly placed bit of glass. Which is the shop in question?