Once I took a mini vacation up to a natural hot spring resort. I'd heard it was a relaxed, hippie-ish, communal living place. When we arrived there were just signs absolutely everywhere, in big letters at face level on all doors. Where to take your shoes off, where to be quiet, where to put your food in the kitchen, how to use the communal food shelves, where you had to wear clothes, where to line up for dinner.<p>None of the things were unreasonable. Some seemed a little unnecessarily precise, but if it had been a more crowded weekend could have been more critical. Most were intuitive. But it made me uncomfortable. I'd expected to be able to settle in and find my own place there, but I just felt in the way due to all the signs. And anything that wasn't explicitly allowed by a sign I wasn't sure about.<p>Also, I got a massage there. And when it was over the guy just stormed out without saying anything. I found out later that it's a style for ending massages, not saying anything to ruin the buzz of the massage experience. But I was very startled by it and thought I'd done something wrong. They should have had a sign about that.