New sign on our store door.

[petshopboy]

I love the new sign the boss put on our store door. It says " We are not a child minding service so unsupervised children will be asked to leave.
This came about because we were getting parents leaving their kids in our store while they went off to the supermarket, it happened so many times.

[Food Lady]

My mom left my brother at the grocery store once because he kept running off. He was warned, and Mom does not make empty threats. But she'd never have left him unnatended normally. Plus, our friend had a shop 2 doors down. She was always vigilant about keeping us close-at-hand. I don't understand moms who let their kids run about unnattended. Anything could happen. Kids are stolen, get hurt, break stuff, etc.

[fireheart]

Nice sign Your boss sounds cool.

Although, I can go one better....

"All unsupervised children will be given candy and a free puppy."

Alternately, you can replace candy with shots of espresso.

[Hanzoku]

Heh, a better sign would be 'We are not a child minding service so unsupervised children will have the Child Protective Services called for abandonment.'

I seriously can't understand the idea of leaving your child in a store other then the one you are currently in and walking to another part of the mall.

[Dasota]

I like the one at the hotdog place by my parents' place. Unattended Children with be sold into slavery

[technical.angel]

I think you'd have too many people willing to get a piece of that action!

[BlaqueKatt]

my local used clothing store says "unattended children will be given to Jareth"*

*the goblin king from Labyrinth

[EricKei]

We got this all the frakking TIME back at GameStore -- People's "thought process" (and I use the term loosely) was apparently "They have games, therefore this is an arcade where I can leave them safely".

First of all, since when is your average arcade a "safe" place to leave a kid unattended when you're nowhere even within earshot?

Second, when's the last time you saw a functional arcade around here? (aside from chuck e cheeses, our last real arcade was torn down recently)

Third, I don't see any damn quarter slots on these machines, do you? That would suggest "not an arcade" to me! They let you use them as a babysitter because you actively SPEND MONEY on the games they're playing

Etc, See that XBOX 360 unit that is turned OFF? That's because it doesn't work due to people messing with it and abusing it. We just had it fixed 2 days ago; now it's FUBAR again. Thanks a LOT and NO YOU MAY NOT WALK BEHIND IT TO PLUG IT BACK IN, DAMMIT!

Finally, little kiddles have this annoying tendency to HANG off of things that are taller than they are. Such as, say, game demo units with TV's on them. Fortunately, they have what I can only assume are lead weights in the bases, but they're still not tip-proof. If the kids get hurt, it'll be YOUR fault (due to negligence), but WE will get blamed (and sued!)

DO NOT WANT!