Are you troubled by lack of self-esteem? Do signs like this make it worse? This terse command from the now-defunct Coney Island roller coaster kind of rubs in the fact of too-shortness. That horizontal line could indicate a height to aspire to…or it could represent you flattened by a Humvee on a remote highway.  And notice how "you" is the smallest word and placed on a dubious curve that nearly dumps you off this bumper car of a sentence before it is spoken.

Here is another sign with a slightly more ambiguous command. Shot in lyrical light, it begins my list of  "do nots" or offers me "Do-nuts." Time itself is the lettering artist.

From Ernest Hilsenberg, sculptor and ceramic artist.