{{What, Pig Iron, did your support group let out early?}} Mr. Cynical
Well, faced with that kind of wit, what chance do I have, huh?
{{I was more than happy to let this just go awawy, but you just had to resurrect it. }}
Yes, I’m sure you were more than happy to let your puerile tirade sit there and pretend to carry the day without anyone pointing out what an obnoxious and idiotic smellyboy you are. My tears will water the garden, I can assure you.
{{As I originally said, moron,}}
Someone stupid enough to be stunned that he can’t get a haircut on a whim on a Sunday night is really in no position to be using language like that, but then those who are incompetent rarely realize that they are, since if they had the smarts to do so they’d not be incompetent 9as you appear to be).
{{ this was a minor rant on a message board. Very minor. Then, your lil’ friend MaryAnnQ came in, and had to take offense, and fire back with acidic statements. Of course I went off. }}
Yes, of course, you had to pretend that she had some comprehension problem because she had the temerity to point out that only an idiot gets bent out of shape upon finding out he can’t get a haircut on a Sunday night.
{{Where you came into the picture, I can only guess. I imagine it has something to do with a bowel movement. }}
Enough about you, let’s talk about me.
{{First, allow me to direct you to a link above the text box you typed your drivel in. It says vB code. See, if you read up on that link, you’ll find out how to make a quotation like the big boys do.}}
Yes, you’re a big, big boy – what, couldn’t follow it?
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You’re too dumb to figure out that you needed a haircut until the realization came crashing down upon you on a Sunday evening, at which point you were shocked (shocked!) to discover that some places aren’t open on Sunday nights.
Well, thank you, Mr. Helper. First off, how can one be too dumb to decide that their hair is too long?}}
I dunno, but you managed to do it. Congratulations.
{{Secondly, SOME places weren’t closed on Sunday. ALL places were closed on Sunday. I called them, see? It looks as if you’ll be needing the remedial reading classes as well. }}
See, Mr. Reading Comprehension, the word “some” referred to business establishments in general. But I’m sure someone as clever as you knew that and was simply pretending to be dense in order to feign superiority.
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And you’re criticizing her grasp of English and logic?
Yes, I am.}}
Well, see, that makes you doubly an idiot. Nice job including the phrase to which I referred, though – hey, is that how the “big boys” do it?
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Nah, that would require effort. Most pain-in-the-ass customers are lazy sacks of shit (but they do tend to get ticked off when they can’t have just what they want whenever they want it).
By this statement, you are agreeing with me that I am not a pain-in-the-ass customer. }}
Obviously not, but your cunning failure to include the statement you posted is certainly impressive, big boy.
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Thanks for the clarification – from your defensive posture one might have concluded that you were talking to your penis.
Now how could I talk to my penis? It’s been too far ensconsed in your momther’s rectum for it to hear.}}
Hey, if I wanted any lip from you I’d hire someone to scrape it off Johnsbury’s dick.
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With insights like those, I can only assume you’re a trained economist.
With a statement like that, I can only assume that you’re a hydrocephalic. }}
Well, that’s certainly a substantive response to my observation that your economic insights were on the 3d grade level.
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Mindshare? What’s that, some new smellyboy-speak for goodwill?
I don’t think you understand what you’re trying to say. Please try again later. }}
What’s a “mindshare” again, Einstein?
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They can, but most choose not to, since there are only a handful of goofballs who ever even want to get a haircut on Sunday, while most people like to have Sundays off. There’s not enough demand generally. It’s that simple – you don’t have to be Encyclopedia Brown to figure it out.
See, Sherman, the point slips past you yet again. My question was more to the point of “do Hair Salons operate under the same odd laws that liquor stores and car dealerships do?” }}
And yet you were oddly unable to articulate that question in your petulant post, and moreover were unable to figure out such a simple questionj despite the fact that the laws in the state of Colorado are a matter of public record (available online).
{{Additnally, I offer to you that if most people do not want to get their hair cut on Sundays, it is more than likely the result of willingness to stay rooted in tradition. Call me extreme, but I don’t much subscribe to that. It’s like how people seem to like to go to church on Sunday. Tradition. If that’s the way you want it to be fine, but I don’t agree. }}
I look to you to guide us into that brave new world.
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Shall I type this slower to aid your comprehension?
Imitation is indeed the most sincere form of flattery. However, since I read at my own pace, your rate of typing hardly matters.}}
You figured that out by yourself, huh? Man, nothin’ gets by you.
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Most businesses are closed on Sunday (hell, probably most of them are closed Saturdays, too). The only businesses routinely open on Sundays are restaurants, gas stations, convenient stores, supermarkets, and department stores and other large retail outlets (maybe I forgot one or two – if so, pork yourself).
My point exactly. The majority of salons I called were indeed located in large retail outlets. Here, we call them mini-malls. Anyway, you are saying that the vast majority of open businesses are those that provide a service to the end-user. This is the crux of my argument. You are proving my point for me, and I thank you for it. }}
So, what, you fancy that all those other businesses (you know, the majority of them) that aren’t open on Sunday night don’t provide a service to the “end-user?”
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If you’re hungry, for instance, or you’re out of gas, well, you need food and gas right now. Nobody (yes, I’m looking at you, Mr. Cynical) needs a haircut right this minute.
And did I say I needed a haircut right this minute? No. I said I wanted a haircut, and was even willing to pay well for it. }}
No, you said you wanted one pronto, on a Sunday night, and were dopey enough to be surprised (and pissed) that you’d have to wait until Monday.
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Most people aren’t working on Sunday.
Which is why it is the perfect time to be open to the customer. If they’re not working, they have a good chance of being able to purchase your goods or services. Tell your local grocery store to close on Sundays. Ask them why not. }}
I’m not the idiot who’s shocked to find the people at the salon not working on Sunday night.
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When you have a fairly small establishment (as most hair joints are), the odds are that nobody there will be working.
Most of the establishments I called were nationals.}}
They’re probably franchises, actually, and the staff there is pretty small (unlike at, say, your local Safeway).
{{ realize how many of them did not have ads listed in the yellow pages? }}
You obviously seem to think you know their business better than they do. Why aren’t you cleaning up competing against them, I wonder?
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Oh, well, if YOU say so …
What, do you need receipts? Witnesses? I’ve got both. }}
Yeah, it’s always so convincing when someone assers how cool they are.
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Have you ever heard of the concept that most people like to have the same days off as their friends and family, and so having a common day off is deemed a good thing? Are you aware that working Sundays may be considered an undesirable shift, and that if they are open at all on those days that employees who don’t want to work Sundays will nevertheless be called upon to do so from time to time (perhaps most of the time)?
Um, yes. And, I’ve worked those shifts. And, when I decided that I didn’t want to work them anymore, I got a different job. You seem to be implying that it is MY fault that those people work in a field where undesireable shifts are a possibility. }}
No, it’s just your fault for griping about not being able to get a haircut on a Sunday night when everyone else in the world knows that most places of any kind are closed then.
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There’s no business for them (as she noted, although if you’d had the honesty and/or intelligence to realize this you would have had to forego your cutesy insults regarding her reading comprehension). They don’t think it’s worth their while to be open on the off chance that some smellyboy decides, all of a sudden on a Sunday night, that he would like a haircut. It’s common for most businesses to be closed on Sundays. Now that we have cleared up this deeply puzzling mystery, I can explain for you why the salons aren’t open from midnight to 4AM, either.
Well, there is. If you think that I am the only person in the world who would have liked a haircut that Sunday, you’re severely deluded.}}
Yeah, I’m sure there might be one or two other smellyboys who wanted one then, which obviously leads to the conclusion that these places are way out of line in not being open whenever the hell the random customer might like to walk in.
{those that don’t do most of their business directly to the end-user.}}
Is that actually supposed to make sense?
{{he question, imp, is WHY ARE THEY CLOSED? Business is out there. }}
The answer, idiot, is that there isn’t much business out there, only a handful of disgruntled smellies.
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You mean you can’t just call the college administration offices on a Sunday night and get someone who will help you? What’s the deal with that, huh?
Stop it, I say! I can do this myself! }}
So far, I haven’t seen any evidence that you can do anything for yourself.