Toledo, Spain, road signs and other public signs work with simple symbols, pictograms. The point is that people fast and easily understand what it is about. Especially road signs have to be clear, so fast running car drivers will have a chance to read them.
In eastern Berlin the green light man is a real gentleman, okay a little ridiculous, wearing an oldfashioned hat. Here in Toledo car drivers get the message that children are always running – to school or home from school, maybe by happiness, maybe because they are seriously scared. Anyway, they are fast running.
Houses on the way to fall apart are dangerous. If you open the door and get in you have to be carefully prepared by finding out the meaning of a lot of pictograms about what to do and not to do. I wouldn't take the risk to open the door. Maybe it's a good way to keep thieves away...
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