How often do you actually look at the things that you see everyday? I catch the train to work most days, and I must have seen the strip of No Smoking/etc signs a thousand times. For some reason this morning I actually read them, and the middle one in the image below caught my eye

It’s a little hard to read, as I was using my camera phone and the train was moving around  a bit, but it’s a quote from Heinrich Heine that says "The Tyrant dies smiling, for he knows that after his death tyranny will merely change hands, and slavery will never end."

On closer inspection, it was a sticker placed over the top of the original, but someone had gone to the trouble to produce the stickers in the right size and style to match the Sydney train system.

This person could have simply spray painted a wall, or written on the back of the seat, but the effort they put into a little ironic protest that most of the population will probably not notice really struck a chord with me. It’ll also make me pay more attention to the signs I see but don’t process everyday.