FUCK YOU! I wasted 5 minutes of time and made myself look like a fool, when I went up to your door and pulled on it and nothing happened. I hope no one saw me because I must have looked pretty stupid, except for the fact that there was a big lit sign that said OPEN in the window!
Welcome Fireclown!
A pet peeve of mine. There ought to be a law.
On the other hand, here in the Pit, we award point based on style. While yo have good reason to bring the issue to the Pit, you need to add some Tabasco to gain the respect of the assembled multitude.
May I propose:
“These myopic, scum-sucking, amateur store owners who do not even realize the number of customers they are driving away from their puss-filled stores.”
“If they were on fire, I would not pee on them.”
“If they are in a car wreck I hope the emergency room has a big open sign on the door, when they are in fact closed.”
Let me let you in on a little secret:
If the lights are off, it doesn’t matter what the sign says. If the door is locked, it doesn’t matter what the sign says. If the hours are posted on the door and you continue to pull on the door in spite of what is perfectly obvious to everybody else (what, you didn’t notice that you had the only car in the parking lot?), then it doesn’t matter what the sign says.
Use your head, man. I mean, how imbecilically petty can you be? Does everybody have to do your thinking for you, or can you exercise some of the matter between your ears on your own every once in a while?
You jive turkey! I saw the sign from quite a distance and DROVE there based on the fact that their sign was on, it was well lit and not readily apparent that the location was closed. Obviously the store hired some trouser stain like yourself who could not handle turning off a simple sign.
Sorry, Airman, the Clown is right. Huge lit sign on the highway, “McFriendy’'s,” you see the building form the road. It has a big “Now Open” sign on the roof. You exit, drive there and the place is closed.
There ought to be a law.
There is a cosmetics store down the road, for the past several months I noticed that there Open sign is on 24/7. Now this place is dark enough when closed that it obviously is not open for business, but it still is dumb. why not just unplug the damn thing and save energy? 
Who buys cosmetics at three in the morning? Sounds like a whore house to me.
Best Pit insult ever! But now I picture you driving a pink El Camino down to the corner store to pick up some afro wax and a pair of fuzzy dice.
Agreed!
On this same subject, the owner of the store I work at won’t let me make an “Open/Closed” sign to hang in the window because it “doesn’t look professional.” What the hell? What’s so unprofessional about letting people who pull up in front of the store at 4:30 on a Saturday know that we’re not open (We close at 4:00 on Saturdays) without getting out of their cars, pulling on the door handle, reading the sign with .75-inch-tall letters giving our hours, looking at me incredulously through the front window as I try to count the dimes from register two, and storming back to their cars.
That reminds me: Every store needs to have a sign out front clearly listing their hours. And for fast food places, you better fucking tell me if those hours are “Drive-thru hours” or not. Because if you don’t, I’m walking through the Drive Thru and raising Cain if you won’t serve me.
I agree 100%, a “pet peeve” of mine, also.
Sure, if the place is all dark, then sign or no sogn, it’s closed. But many stores leave their lights on all night for the cleaning crew or “for security”.
In the strip mall across the street from me, there’s a nail salon just inside the door to the inner part of the mall that has its big neon OPEN sign turned on 24-7, rain or shine. Lights off, doors locked, mall doors chained, OPEN sign a-glowin’.
It makes me smile every time I walk past it at 1:00 a.m. The knowledge that its soft, flickering, utterly meaningless light shall pursue, undaunted, through the annals of eternity brings a certain comforting warmth to my heart.
Of course, if I’m on the road, and it’s that same 1:00 a.m. and I don’t know where the fuck I am, seeing a big lit-up OPEN sign on a gas station and getting off the interstate only to find out I’m boned would most likely be somewhat less pleasant.
A similar thing happened to us today. Hubby was craving a good hot dog (don’t ask, I have no idea.) There’s a little shop called Coney’s, on the water we’d passed earlier We rushed over. Yea! light on, Door are open and the sign says “Open” We walked up to the counter and were ignored…
Finally, the kid mopping the floor couldn’t finish until we moved so he said. “We closed 20 minutes ago.” :eek: :rolleyes: Why the hell? What not say so as we walked in? The sign telling the hours of operation were 11AM to 7PM. We walked in at 6:52PM by my watch. I know that’s close, but still…
Don’t forget to sass it. You’ve got to sass it.
Two slightly related observations:
(1) If you’re going to have only one little extra sign to hang below your main one, and you must choose between “OPEN” and “CLOSED,” please choose “CLOSED.” Why? Because when there IS no little sign, you could very well be open. CLOSED gives definitive info.
(2) For a long time, only one local business had a sliding sign with two options:
OPEN or SHUT.
“SHUT”? When people call just after hours, do you answer and say “Sorry, we’re shut”? I assumed they were just morons. But now another place has an “OPEN/SHUT” sign. WTF? I know it’s convenient because they have the same number of letters, but it makes you look like idiots and I’m not sure that I would ever patronize your establishment.
How so? “Shut” has long been used a synomym for “Closed for the day”, at least in this part of the world. I don’t see a problem with it- in fact, I’ve used it myself, quite frequently.
It’s not very common in the US - at least not in the region where Scarlett67 and I live.
A nail salon near where I live has this sign for after hours: “Close” :smack:
The background picture on my phone is of one of these signs in a particular shoe store I live near. It’s funny because the sign has been turned on for the whole time I’ve lived here. Two whole years, it’s a sure thing. In fact, if someone ever did turn it off I think I’d miss it and have separation anxiety. It’s like m y town’s own little lighthouse of sorts, a flourescent eternal flame!
Yup, makes sense here, too.