Abbreviation: doin it rong.

[pebblerocker]

There's a sign on the main road in my town saying:
[FAST FOOD OUTLET]
600 mtr's

That saves one character over writing "metres" in full, and including the space uses FIVE characters more than if they'd used the actual abbreviation.

Comments

[spiralsheep]

Their abbreviation has a spectacularly unnecessary "greengrocer's" apostrophe too, hee!