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Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Everything these days must have a label, from bags of peanuts (“Warning, contains nuts”) to hair dryers (“Caution, do not use while submerged”). McDonald’s coffee cups have to tell you that their contents may be hot, and chain saws have to include a warning along the lines of “Caution! Do not attempt to stop the chain with your hands.” This annoying trend comes to us from the United States where everyone, it seems, can file a law suit for the silliest of reasons. Imagine my surprise, then, when I saw this sign painted on a house in the village of Valbonne last Sunday. “A house in Valbonne”, it reads. What the... I wondered, and then it hit me: the tourist season is upon us, and with that the arrival of visitors from Belgium... who need all the help they can get.