One a day, plus iron

In all honesty, no, I never considered that normal people would not read signs. (I read signs. It's a feature.) I further did not consider that normal people would fail to obey signs. (I obey signs unless they are clearly meaningless like Speed 55 Limit.) The consideration of what normal people do never crossed my mind because in my world, there is one person, that is me, and I would much rather a discreet sign saying No Food or Drink Beyond This Point instead of a LACK OF SIGN and some supercilious person telling me that I can't take food or drink beyond this point like I'm doing something wrong. How the fuck am I supposed to know No Food or Drink when there isn't any sign?

The current system of guard-without-sign makes all persons with food/drink AUTOMATICALLY WRONG and in need of correction. If they had a guard AND a sign, people could self-correct if they read and obey signs. They'd have a chance to do the right thing on their own. The guard would only have to correct the people who ignored or didn't notice the sign. Also, if I for some reason didn't see the sign and got corrected by the guard, I'd be less pissy about the whole thing because, in not seeing the sign, I'd have done something wrong, to wit failure to observe and obey applicable signs. I do not LIKE being corrected for something where I have no idea and no opportunity to find out what right is. I am not psychic. I am als terrible at guess the correct behavior, particularly when it's not constant across all options. If the whole museum was No Food or Drink except the food court, then it'd be an easy call to say all exits from the food court were No Food or Drink, wouldn't it? But SOME of the museum was food-n-drink friendly and some wasn't... and they made you guess which was which... and then had guards who corrected you when you guessed wrong. This pissed me off.