so anyways, the other day before a hockey match i was getting ready in the changerooms and by chance glanced down at my hockey stick bag and – kidding you notness taking place here by me of you – there is a little red circle near the bottom with red letters loudly proclaiming “do not eat”

that is quite funny in itself.

what is possibly a slight bit more funny is the questions surrounding the precedent for such a warning to be attached to a hockey stick bag (cos it is printed on the bag – i’m not talking someone took a sticker and added it to the bag or someone wrote on the bag in red ink – this is manufactured onto the outside of my hockey stick bag) – and surely if such a thing had happened once before [really peckish asian man before the game – cos i think we’re talking ‘made in china’ bag here] there would simply have been a warning – “no, don’t do that, stop being silly”… and so HOW MANY BAGS WERE EATEN OR CHEWED UPON before it necessitated a manufactured warning to be imprinted on the bag?

i did have a bb pellet handgun once before with the more subtle message of “don’t point at the animal” but never really specifying which one, but i do think that experientally the hockey bag takes the cake (or the place of the cake)

for more exciting true stories of this go and check out the site engrish.com cos that is usually good for a few laughs… and if you need a snack while you’re looking there, no.