Why are there locks on a store that opens 24 hours a day 7 days a week?
Well, I’d want to lock the doors as I’m counting the day’s take. Security reasons, you know. If you look in the Archives, you can find an article by Cecil on this topic, I just know it.
Oh fer god’s sake. Please don’t post the driveway/parkway question, too, I beseech you. Really. It’s for your own good.
This is the same person who posted “If a man talks to himself in the woods, is he still wrong”. I think these two questions should be moved to Great debates. Perhaps the OP should also post questions about driving on parkways and parking on driveways.
Tick…tick…tick…tick…
Hunckering down in the bomb shelter
[deadpan voice]
I went down to a 24 hour store to buy something but found the guy closing up. I said to him “It says you’re open 24 hours.”
The guy answered, “Not in a row.”
[/deadpan voice]
Zev Steinhardt
At the same time:
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That’s just creepy.
List all the words that end in ‘gry’.
During the transition to the One-World Socialist Government, it will be necessary to lock all stores–even ones which are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week–for a brief period of martial law, while the UN soldiers round up the population and implant our mind control microchips. For details, see document UNO-NWO 247-DL: (“Executive Order by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Concerning the Necessity of Door Locks at All Places of Business”), which can be found at http://www.un.org/NewWorld/New_World_Order_Docs/unonwo247dl.html.
[ominous, halloween-esque voice]
PREPARE THE RITUAL!
Hmmm… Let’s see… There’s angry…Ummm… hungry, and …
Oops. Gotta go. I’ve just been invited to participate in some sort of rutual.
I used to work in a 24/7 store. It was a combination of convenience, deli, and liquor store in a bad part of Las Vegas. Working there was…interesting. Anyway, we didn’t count the day’s take up front. The manager would post the assistant manager on lookout, and scoop the money out of the safe, then take the loot to the (locked) back room to count it.
The electricity went out once and we had to figure the bills by hand. In this case, I think that we SHOULD have locked down the store. Generally, one wants to be able to secure the store if one has to cease business (the Health Department found out the Truth about the sandwiches, for instance) for a time.
::hears a knock at the door::
Well hello there Mr. Woodchuck, how’s it going? My goodness, what happened to your teeth? Oh dear, freak mating accident? Wow, that is terrible. What? Hmm…good question. I’ll ask the dopers.
Hey guys, my friend the woodchuck here can’t chuck any wood. But he wants to know, assuming that he could chuck wood…OW! Hey stop! Lemmie at least finish. Stop it, not the hair! Not the hair! AHHHHHH…
[PYTHON=1]
::Zots Ender. He turns into a newt. He gets better.::
Damn Python bit.
[PYTHON=0]
There.
::Zots Ender.::
Orrie would be proud.
Man, I saw like this Wal-Mart truck that was jack knifed and inside get this were a load of signs saying *“This area under martial law by order of the UN”. It’s true. It was in Illinois, or Montana or somewhere
Colin, good one. I think that ranks as the ‘Best Use of a Snopes Link in a Non-Serious Post’.
I actually know the third word ending in -gry. I will post the evidence later. I don’t have access to it now. It is at home, and I will post it later. Together with the information on how black labrador dogs are really running the planet, not the mice. Plus, incriminating evidence that Bill Clinton is the illegitimate son of Mother Theresa and Lemmy Kilmister.
Just because a store says it is open 24 hours, it is not a promise to the customers. It is a general statement of their common business practice.
When I was attending college, we had a small 7-11 convenience store across from the residence halls. It was 7-11’s policy to be open 24 hours. However when I went there late one night on a study break, the door was locked. Confused I asked the store clerk why the door was locked. He said he was the only person working that evening and he had to use the washroom. He needed to lock the doors for security reasons. Sounded plausible to me.
Many of our 24 hour stores have gone to a system where the front door can be locked / unlocked remotely from the till… this is due to the high number of robberies that have occurred.
If they want to sell the building, who is going to buy a store with no locks?