It's 8:02! Why aren't you all open yet?

[draggar]

I live near a post office which opens at 9am. Every Monday and Thursday, there is a massive queue outside when I leave for work. At 7.30am.

Why??? people!

I once had to do an inventory at 6am in my old store in NJ. I was there about 5:45am (I forgot there's a lot less traffic out at that time!). When I got there, a car was sitting in front of the store, the guy was reading a paper and looked like he was there a while.

He sat there until we opened at 9:00 am then came in to make a payment.

[Rapscallion]

There was a regular congregation outside the bread shop along from us on a Saturday morning. The same three or four people every Saturday would be waiting from at least a half-hour before the doors opened. The Boss used to go along and rap on the window with him ring so one of the managers would fly out and scold them.

Gammon End - a notoriously tight-fisted alleged customer of ours - was one of them. One day she got in with the other three, after having waited for the requisite half-hour, and when she wasn't served first loudly said that she didn't have time to wait today and left in a huff.

Funny old owrld.

Rapscallion

[Tigress]

One thing that amuses me to no end is when I'm opening my department for the day, which usually requires me to come in an hour before we open. I will see people sitting in their cars waiting for our doors to open at 10. Then they see my uniform, lean out of their cars and shout at me before I've even walked ten feet from my car, "When do ya'll open?!" Note that we have to park half-way down the parking lot and they are usually in one of the first spaces in the row.

I don't know, douche. Why don't you walk the 5 feet to the door and look at the hours posted in big, honking numbers on the front door? Instead of shouting at a 5' 2" female employee in a nearly empty parking lot and risking said employee misinterpreting your incoherent shouting as a threat to her personal safety and calling the cops on your lazy ass.

[DesignFox]

After reading about all these people sitting in parking lots for upwards of 30 mins, the question that springs to my mind is, Don't these people have anything better to do?

I don't have time to waste hanging out in my car waiting for a store to open...sheesh how lame can you get?

[protege]

Don't these people have anything better to do?

Usually not. Around here, it's mainly the older folks who do that. I mean, the people who are retired, older than 45 of the 50 states, and have very little else to do that day. Because of that, they see nothing wrong with clogging up the roads during rush hour (kinda funny they call it that...since *nobody* moves!) just to sit in a parking lot.

I too, don't have the time to sit around. I need something to do, or else I get bored.

[basketseller]

Being that I am a Home Depot slave (Yes I work there) I can definately agree that people are there banging on the doors at 6 on Saturday AM and 8 on Sunday AM and when HD closes at 10 there the people who complain because they aren't done shopping yet. Hello we are closed get out now!!!!!

I love my job. NOT!!

[Dragonlover]

The petrol station I worked at is 24 hr opening, so my version of this consists of people trying to come in at 3 in the morning when the doors locked. It's great fun watching them stroll across the forecourt and smack their heads on the locked door, especially when they're drunk.

Dragonlover

[MadMike]

After reading about all these people sitting in parking lots for upwards of 30 mins, the question that springs to my mind is, Don't these people have anything better to do?

Apparently not.

When I still lived in the city, I usually walked to my job. It was only about a 10-minute walk, and would have actually taken longer to drive there, find a place to park, and then walk to the building from there.

My chosen path took me past a bar, and without fail, there were always people standing out in front of it, waiting for it to open. How sad and pathetic is that?

[draftermatt]

The only place I go to early is the DMV (MVA here). They open at 8 on Saturdays. People start lining up at 7. I don't want to be there that early but when everyone else does it how can't I? If I don't want to wait in an hour long line that is.