Pro tip: a guy at the coffee shop changed how I look at flyers forever

So I'm getting a latte last Tuesday and this older dude sees me taking a picture of this crazy layered bulletin board near the register. He just goes "you know half that stuff is dead, right?" and I kind of laughed it off. But then he points to this one neon orange flyer for a lost cat and says "that cat's been gone since March, it's June now" and I realized he was right. He told me he used to run a community center and said most people just staple stuff up and never come back to take it down. He showed me how you can tell by the paper curl and the tape yellowing how old a flyer is. Now I can't unsee it - I walked by three boards today and probably 60 percent of the stuff on them is completely outdated. Has anyone else noticed how much dead info is just rotting up there? Or am I just seeing it now because that dude called me out?

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reese5505d ago

Tape yellowing means it's older, not that nobody checks it.

the_nathan4d ago

Ha, you got me there. I guess if my tapes ever start yellowing, it'll just mean I've been too lazy to open the evidence box. Either way, I'm sticking to my story that nobody checks them until something goes wrong.