A couple of road painters maybe should have taken their time - spelling the word 'SLOW' on the tarmac.
Local observer Kim Cooper-Grindley was amused to see the warning spelled backwards on a street in Penge, south London.
She explains: "Why would you need to go slow looking in your rearview mirror, you've already passed?"
"It happened on Monday 15th January at approximately 11.30am. But they have not returned."
Kim joked: "Our concern is that there will be hoards of people visiting to see the famous WOLS, it will become a Penge tourist attraction like Barnard castle."
An online neighbourhood Facebook group were scratching their heads as they discussed whether it was a mistake or not.
Comments suggested whether it was "for testing your eyesight?" or "testing if you can read back to front".
While one wag commented: "Owls down - it may all wrok uot fine in the edn."
It follows an incident in September 2022 when Brighton road marking painters went straight to bottom of the class - after spelling the word school wrong.
Contractors had daubed 'SHCOOL' outside Brighton's Portslade Aldridge Community Academy.
Bromley Council have been contacted for comment regarding the Penge spelling.
Local observer Kim Cooper-Grindley was amused to see the warning spelled backwards on a street in Penge, south London.
She explains: "Why would you need to go slow looking in your rearview mirror, you've already passed?"
"It happened on Monday 15th January at approximately 11.30am. But they have not returned."
Kim joked: "Our concern is that there will be hoards of people visiting to see the famous WOLS, it will become a Penge tourist attraction like Barnard castle."
An online neighbourhood Facebook group were scratching their heads as they discussed whether it was a mistake or not.
Comments suggested whether it was "for testing your eyesight?" or "testing if you can read back to front".
While one wag commented: "Owls down - it may all wrok uot fine in the edn."
It follows an incident in September 2022 when Brighton road marking painters went straight to bottom of the class - after spelling the word school wrong.
Contractors had daubed 'SHCOOL' outside Brighton's Portslade Aldridge Community Academy.
Bromley Council have been contacted for comment regarding the Penge spelling.
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00:00 He's just worked out.
00:03 What has he done?
00:10 He's just scratched his head.
00:13 He's just... Oh dear, I've got to go.
00:15 Bromley Council.
00:24 Road painting part two.
00:27 I think he's just having a fag and I think he's just realised that it doesn't actually make sense
00:33 from either way. We're standing up here just trying to work out...
00:38 I don't know. He doesn't even say...
00:42 He's got the S, so if you're coming from that way, just the S is round the wrong way, isn't it?
00:49 You're looking in your mirror.
00:50 Yeah, so yeah, but why would you need to know to go slow looking in your rear view mirror?
00:55 You've already passed. I think...
00:58 It's just the S, isn't it? It's just the S is the wrong way.
01:01 No.
01:02 It is if you're coming from this way.
01:05 If you're coming from this way, the second letter doesn't say L, does it?
01:12 That said that...
01:14 If you're coming down the road.
01:16 Yeah.
01:16 If he changed the L...
01:18 Why is he taking pictures of it?
01:24 To prove that he's taken the wrong...
01:25 That he's done it all wrong.
01:27 Oh, come on, we've got to tell him.
01:31 Slow. I can't see it in this mirror.
01:35 Maybe he's using her makeup mirror to see if it makes sense looking at it in a mirror.
01:42 Slow. No, it doesn't.
01:44 We can tell you that. The mirror image is...
01:48 No, I just thought they were being clever.
01:50 Shlong.
01:50 Shlong.
01:52 Shlong.
01:53 Maybe he's...
01:54 Oh, maybe. Yeah.
01:55 Shlong. Shalom. Shlong.
01:59 Oh, he's still having another check. It's still wrong, mate. It's still not right.
02:05 Oh, bless.
02:05 And off they go. Thank you. Thank you, Bromley.