The Place For My Writers Notes

Original posting 8 December 2008

These caught my eye. On an electronic banner display in the front of the airport bus . . .

All the way and before completely stopped, please keep sitting in the seats.

Please get yourself well seated before the bus gets started.

The funny part of both of these is that they are perfectly clear, just not the way a native language speaker would phrase them. So what do they mean, how would you phrase them, and what's wrong with the way these are phrased?