so, you're thinking of starting your own collection of slippery floor signs - but where's the best place to start. well, let me tell you. it's motorway service stations. full of them they are.

the strange thing is that motorway service stations are increasingly becoming photo-fits of each other, yet the one thing they haven't standardised on is slippery floor signs.

here are a few examples. i didn't take photos of ones i've already got. some are quite similar though so i'll talk you through them:

a classic hollow body picture very similar to this one. possibly caught a few micro-seconds later.

at first glance this is the same as this one. but look again, don't be fooled. the claw is gone and the person has merged with the puddle. it's never clear on these photos whether the subject slipped on the puddle or produced it as a result of their fall (is it blood ?):

as above with helpful explanatory words:

the water on this one isn't quite as deep as this one:

very similar to (if not the same as) the waitrose version. this one is certainly more in focus. the chap seems to be dancing the can-can (and therefore more likely to fall over). they are using the full space available to them:

finally something a little more tenuous. it's indicating that cleaning is happening and therefore, by implication, slipperness may appear.