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keyjan t1_ja5kc24 wrote

Probably by mistake. I used to work across the street from a government building (which is no longer there); one morning, I looked out the window and saw their flag was upside down. At lunch I walked across the street and asked the guard at the desk what was wrong, since they were flying an international distress signal on their flagpole. The guard burst out laughing and basically said, “oops.”

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tehruben OP t1_ja5ki2m wrote

Probably the most likely answer - although both are upside down, which led me to think it was intentional?

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BrokenJellyfish t1_ja5kqnu wrote

Honestly it's easy to get mixed up which end goes up top. Either that or they did it on purpose and "oh no I oops-ed" if anyone asks them.

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keyjan t1_ja5kyfo wrote

Yep. Especially if it’s the kids who run up the flags; bet they thought it was hilarious. (In high school, we ran up the flags. We would also occasionally run a uniform skirt up the flagpole.)

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tehruben OP t1_ja5kxt3 wrote

Sounds about right - I’m going to be riding again tomorrow, I’ll check to see if it’s still like this.

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SandBoxJohn t1_ja7h7ft wrote

I asked the same question of the post mistress at my local Post Office on the Easter Shore a couple of years ago. Got the same answer minus the laugh.

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