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Saw a sign at the DMV in Omaha that said 'Zero Tolerance' and the guy next to me turned to me and said 'for what?'
I was at the DMV on 108th and L in Omaha last Tuesday waiting to renew my license, and there's a big red sign behind the counter that just says 'ZERO TOLERANCE' with no other words on it. No fine policy, no warning, no explanation, nothing. The guy in line next to me, older dude in a seed corn cap, looks at it for a second and goes 'zero tolerance for what? Being here too long?' and I almost lost it. Here's why this fits this sub: everyone online was sharing a photo of that same sign last month with captions like 'DMV finally cracking down' and 'they're not playing around anymore,' and like 40,000 people reshared it without a single person asking what the policy actually is. Turns out I asked the clerk while she was checking my paperwork, and it's about cell phone use at the window, that's it, that's the whole thing. So the viral version turned a boring phone rule into this scary authoritarian warning through nothing but an empty extra sentence and everybody's imagination. It's a masterclass in how a four word sign with no context can make people invent a whole story, and the story spread way faster than the real answer ever would. Anybody else seen a sign or flyer near them that went viral for meaning basically nothing?
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