Is their first question “What are you protesting?”, or “Do you work here?”
Regards,
Shodan
Thanks for the laugh, I needed that after the stressful morning I had. 
He’s protesting the fact that he can’t get a satisfying vegan meal on Mondays.
Sign gettin heavy?
Or perhaps- “Is that restaurant open on Mondays?”
I’m one of those people who’s terrible at looking around and seeing restaurant signs/“keep off the grass” posts/the ketchup in the front of the fridge/the keys that are literally right there. I’ve actually spent decent amounts of time trying to find my glasses when I was wearing them. I honestly try to be more aware - it’s just that sometimes my eyes kind of skirt over things.
. . . Sorry, this is the Pit? Huh.
Truth is, regardless of how big the sign is or its lettering, when I’m approaching an establishment, particularly one that I’ve been in before, and it’s during normal business hours when you’d expect the place to be open, I’m not looking at the front of the door for a sign confirming or correcting my assumption that they’re open. My mind is probably on fifteen other things and while I may be looking in the direction of the front of the store (or diner, or whatever), it’s only so that I know when to reach out and pull the door handle.
As far as I’m concerned signs are most useful when they give me the answer to something I need. Where are the new releases? Oh- over by the “NEW RELEASES” sign. How do I get out of here? Ah- an EXIT sign, there we go. Etc. When I’m accosted by more and more signs thrust into my field of vision vying for my attention, my subconscious response is to just not see them or pay attention to them.
Nope, it’s MPSIMS.
I was warning the newbie to stay out of our PIT forum if he was thin-skinned.
Did you work in Miggle’s Emporium? 
I noted the “Big Dick’s Halfway Inn”. There is an actual business just south of Fairbanks, AK called Skinny Dick’s Halfway Inn.
Our street is a designated bicycle route. There are all sorts of speed humps, choke points, and bikes painted on the street. About a block from us is a bike/pedestrian crossing. There are four different signs telling people in cars on the cross street that there are no right or left turns onto our street at that intersection. Additionally, there are strategically placed humps that are studded with flexible red tubing to let people know that there is no turning. The driving lane at that point on our street narrows to a single lane. Yet people routinely drive over the humps and dodge the tubing because of the stupid.
Yesbut the cyclists ride on the sidewalk anyway, so…
:mad:
The thing about signs is that our world is plastered with text. Signs are everywhere, and if we stopped to read each and every sign we’d move at a literal snail’s pace. And so everyone ignores most signs, because there’s no other option, signs are just part of the ignorable background noise of life. But that trains your brain to ignore signs, except sometimes the signs really are important and you really do have to read them.
So complaining that people didn’t notice the “road closed” or “push door to enter” sign doesn’t make sense. There are hundreds of ads that you walk by every day without reading them, so why should you expect people to read the one sign they were supposed to read while ignoring all the other ones?
I used to work at a small zoo, which was broadly divided into two sections, a large building, and outside area. The door to outside had ‘Outdoor exhibits this way’ written on it, and at least once a day someone would walk up to it, stare for a second, then ask me “Are the outside exhibits this way?”
I always smiled and answered “No”, and every time, they looked confused for a second, then laughed and walked out the door.
Didn’t we have an entire thread just a few weeks ago, about some idjit in a fast-food place who walked up to a closed register that was posted “Closed” and waited there indefinitely long, eventually engaging clerks and managers with idjit complaints?
ETA: Here it is. I stood next to the Emperor of the World at McDonald’s!. Actually, not recent at all, but I saw it recently because someone linked to it. Fun thread.
I don’t know about that, but Sauron’s Emperor of the world thread is a classic
Aha. Leaffan ninjas my ETA above.
Damn you Senegoid!
ETA: Oh, wait. I ninja’d you? Never mind.
I used to work at a gas station. When one of the pumps was out of order we’d bag the nozzles off & put an Out-of-Order sign on it. I’d always print off the sign tape to the pump covering up the keypad & call buttons. And by tap mean duct tape along each edge. Despite this people would still pull up to the pump, take the bag off the nozzle, & try to peel back the sign to use the pump. :dubious: Sometimes they’d come inside and ask us to turn the pump on or why wasn’t it working. Or instead of coming in they’d press the Help button and/or just stand there motioning with their hands.
I remember one particularly obnoxious soccer bitch from New York who just kept pressing the Help button and waving her hands angrily in the air after even I told her over the loudspeaker that pump was out of order and politely asked her to move to another pump. We were really busy (inside & out at the time), and I guess she just wanted us to magically make the pump work so she wouldn’t have to wait. Eventually I asked her point blank, over the loudspeaker, what part of “That pump is out of order, please move to another” did she not understand and if she noticed bags she ripped off or the sign she ripped off. She stormed in, but turn around once some of the other customers started clapping or hooting at her.
I think some of us have mastered the art of editing; I can actually read the newspaper, watch TV and navigate in the world while ignoring ads and noticing things that I need to notice. Is that an unusual talent?
some people dislike pocket change.