No, seriously....

[Pagan]

We've got a soda fountain type thing at work. Customer pays for drink, gets their own cup, and fills it up themselves. Now, from time to time one of the soda's will run out and we don't have a replacement for it yet. This was the case the other night with the Dr. Pepper, so we had put a sign on it that said "Out of Order." Well, we're standing there and watch this asshat attempt to get Dr. Pepper, completely disregarding said sign. Now, I don't know who did it, but I walked by later and someone had put another sign up that said, "No, seriously, it's out of order." This make me laugh every time I go by!

[Sandy]

Hehehehe, that's so funny! Good on 'em!

[Silas G. T. Brontë]

God, signs are utterly useless with many customers, even if you shove them into their faces! Isn't it pathetic when you actually point to the sign and they say, "Well, nobody told me about it!"?

There's got to be a better way.

[MadMike]

Now, I don't know who did it, but I walked by later and someone had put another sign up that said, "No, seriously, it's out of order."

It didn't happen to be a full-size sheet, written in shoe polish, did it?

[Becks]

Oh, that was funny.

Mad Mike, don't you LOVE being able to use Clerks references?

I have to remember to grab Clerks and the cartoon for Bella's viewing pleasure when I'm back home...

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

God, signs are utterly useless with many customers, even if you shove them into their faces! Isn't it pathetic when you actually point to the sign and they say, "Well, nobody told me about it!"?

There's got to be a better way.

Yes. Yes there is. You show them the sign and bash their faces into it while you are reading out loud to them what the sign says, punctuating each word with another meeting of face and sign. Then you are now left with a customer who has either:

Learned what the sign says and learns from it

Is now a dribbling vegetable who has so much brain damage that he's in a home for the rest of his life

Or is dead

Either way they won't bother you again...the downside to this is the possibility of procecution for assult/manslaughter.

Mongo

[XCashier]

This was the case the other night with the Dr. Pepper, so we had put a sign on it that said "Out of Order." Well, we're standing there and watch this asshat attempt to get Dr. Pepper, completely disregarding said sign. Now, I don't know who did it, but I walked by later and someone had put another sign up that said, "No, seriously, it's out of order."

That's too funny! Wonder if any customers still tried to get Dr. Pepper?

[starglitter]

LMAO! That so reminds me of when one of our selfscans was broken. It wouldn't take cash so we taped these big blue signs over where you put the cash in that said that the machine couldn't accept cash and to please take your receipt to the pay station. Nearly everybody who went there would lift up the sign and try to put their money in there anyway. Then they'd complain because it wouldn't take their cash. It's like, uhhm read the sign in your hand, idiot.

[ArenaBoy]

Yes. Yes there is. You show them the sign and bash their faces into it while you are reading out loud to them what the sign says, punctuating each word with another meeting of face and sign. Then you are now left with a customer who has either:

Learned what the sign says and learns from it

Is now a dribbling vegetable who has so much brain damage that he's in a home for the rest of his life

Or is dead

Either way they won't bother you again...the downside to this is the possibility of procecution for assult/manslaughter.

Mongo

There have been times where I just want to do that, calling an SC every name in the book. Those parking signs are big so it would be very entertaining.

[CrazedClerk]

I'd like to make up a sign that says something like "all customers will have the air let out of their tires as they shop" and see how many people actually notice it.

[TruthHurts]

My favorite No Can Read Sign story comes from my Burger King days. We had just mopped the bathrooms floors and put a big sign staying Caution Wet Floors. We see this one SC read the sign and go in, ten mintues later he storms out and heads to the counter. "Your floors are wet I almost tripped" says the SC. We expalin that it had just been mopped and a sign had been put up. "I read the sign but you didn't tell us how wet it was. " He then says that he could've sued but he won't as long as we learned our lesson.

He should've sued his parents and school teachers for not teaching him basic reading and comprehension skills

[Lace Neil Singer]

I'd like to make up a sign that says something like "all customers will have the air let out of their tires as they shop" and see how many people actually notice it.

My dream sign would read, "Anyone entering this store as a customer agrees to relinquish all civil rights" and see how many people see it. Even if no-one saw it, it would be cool to have.