Non-existant punctuation causes confusion, laughter

Egads! I was riding the bus today to Parkland college because it is the first day of classes, and I was staring out the bus window, only half-paying attention to the outside scenery. My bus went by a church, and church signs are pretty insane on their own, but this one was just...weird. It said:


Do Others
See Jesus
In You


Maybe I am a child of the pornography generation, but I guess the intent of this sign is to make the reader ask themselves if they are Christ-like, not command them to have sex with other people. At first glance, I interpreted the sign as "Do others" and then "See Jesus In you!"

It took me a couple seconds to fully understand what the sign was asking me, but my original misinterpretation made me chuckle the whole ride to school. Then I started remembered a book I read a year ago called Eats, shoots & leaves which is about the importance of punctuation. That church sign could have really used a question mark. Better yet, it should have had the whole statement on one line instead of spread over three lines.

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