Customer Assistance is Mobile

I saw this Customer Assistance van parked up in Brushfield Street near Spitalfields in London.

It conjured up an image of some cape donning super customer service type rolling up to the wail of a siren to help someone with their rights as they argued with a surly shop assistant.

There is something nice about this idea of mobile, come-to-me customer assistance. I wonder what it is for? It looks decidedly ‘auto company’ to me. Some breakdown recovery?

Weirdly, there is no other branding. You’d think a company that took Customer Service (sorry Assistance) seriously enough to have a bunch of vans with ‘quick let’s get there and sort it’ livery, that they would at least append their name.

Signs That Say Nothing: No: 2

Another sign, well sticker, seen stuck on a one way sign.

5 what? Why is it up here and not at eye level…? I’m not short but had to take this picture with my arms raised above my head.

Signs That Say Nothing: No: 1

Modern life is full of signs that say nothing. They pepper our streets and float in and out of our day.

More often than not these signs are familiar, we recognise them, but don’t know what they mean. Some are useful like this first one, some are purely shown for legislation.

This series of posts captures these known unknowns, if you can share a comment as to what they are… awesome.

This first one is super common, and I’m enlightened by my good mate Fosta as to its purpose:

From Fosta (posted on Flickr):

“it says a fire hydrant with a 150mm pipe is located 1 metre from this sign”