Proof

[karath]

This one's short and sweet (and stolen, but I digress), and very appropriate to this site.

"You can tell someone there's 400 billion stars in the sky and they'll believe you...but if you tell them a bench is wet with paint they have to touch it first."

[edible_hat]

Then there are the people who think "WET PAINT" is an instruction not a warning.

[wolfie]

Then there are the people who think "WET PAINT" is an instruction not a warning.

Back when I was a kid, one of my friends had a dog that could read - and he (the dog) held the viewpoint that you described.