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There is one reserved space in front of our store for UPS STORE CUSTOMER PARKING ONLY, as can be ascertained by any human of normal intelligence, because its posted on a sign directly in front of the space. Also, the curb for this singular parking space is painted a lovely shade of bright green with white letters proclaiming the space has a 15 minute time limit.
Despite the sign and the brightly painted curb, hordes of idiots park in our spot for hours on end and don't even come into the store.
We printed a nice fat stack of bright yellow papers with a polite note that reads:
This spot is reserved for UPS Store customers with a 15 minute time limit. The reason for this is that many people come in to our store with large packages to ship. We pay extra rent so that we may offer this courtesy. Please respect this in the future. Thank you!
(smiley face an actual feature)
Pretty nice, right? I thought it sounded like a reasonable note to leave on someone's windshield. Its great watching their faces when they come back to their cars. Most look in the window at me guiltily before driving off. Some scoff and shake their heads and peel out. One guy I saw crumpled it up and threw it on the ground. Another lady stomped in and demanded to purchase a single postage stamp. When I rang her up she thrust the note at me and declared "Here, now you can give this to someone who really deserves it!"
But people still park there constantly. A co-worker crafted yet another sign that stands at eye-level to someone if they happen to be driving a normal-sized vehicle, and its right in front of the space, just beside the other sign, right on top of the green curb. There is literally NO WAY you can miss it.
A woman and her friend pulled into the space in a ford F-350. The woman driving pulled in so far her front wheel popped up onto the curb and the sign fell over backwards. Apparently she didn't even notice. Her friend did, because she got out of the passenger side door, crossed the front of the truck and STEPPED OVER the fallen sign, and both of them went into the department store on the other side of the parking lot.
I left the sign were it was on the sidewalk, and along with the standard polite yellow letter, I wrote an additional: "We have written down your license plate number and will notify parking enforcement should you ever park in this space again. Also you drove up on to the sidewalk and knocked over our sign. Please pick it up on your way out."
I didn't get to see her reaction but I'm hoping she was embarrassed.
And you know, I know its just a parking space. But COME ON. Also its a pain in the ass because if someone needs help unloading, I've gotta lock the store to leave and go help them because some douchebag was parked in the loading area.
Despite the sign and the brightly painted curb, hordes of idiots park in our spot for hours on end and don't even come into the store.
We printed a nice fat stack of bright yellow papers with a polite note that reads:
This spot is reserved for UPS Store customers with a 15 minute time limit. The reason for this is that many people come in to our store with large packages to ship. We pay extra rent so that we may offer this courtesy. Please respect this in the future. Thank you!
(smiley face an actual feature)Pretty nice, right? I thought it sounded like a reasonable note to leave on someone's windshield. Its great watching their faces when they come back to their cars. Most look in the window at me guiltily before driving off. Some scoff and shake their heads and peel out. One guy I saw crumpled it up and threw it on the ground. Another lady stomped in and demanded to purchase a single postage stamp. When I rang her up she thrust the note at me and declared "Here, now you can give this to someone who really deserves it!"
But people still park there constantly. A co-worker crafted yet another sign that stands at eye-level to someone if they happen to be driving a normal-sized vehicle, and its right in front of the space, just beside the other sign, right on top of the green curb. There is literally NO WAY you can miss it.
A woman and her friend pulled into the space in a ford F-350. The woman driving pulled in so far her front wheel popped up onto the curb and the sign fell over backwards. Apparently she didn't even notice. Her friend did, because she got out of the passenger side door, crossed the front of the truck and STEPPED OVER the fallen sign, and both of them went into the department store on the other side of the parking lot.
I left the sign were it was on the sidewalk, and along with the standard polite yellow letter, I wrote an additional: "We have written down your license plate number and will notify parking enforcement should you ever park in this space again. Also you drove up on to the sidewalk and knocked over our sign. Please pick it up on your way out."
I didn't get to see her reaction but I'm hoping she was embarrassed.
And you know, I know its just a parking space. But COME ON. Also its a pain in the ass because if someone needs help unloading, I've gotta lock the store to leave and go help them because some douchebag was parked in the loading area.
And of course there's a no overnight parking sign at every entrance, but OH! We must have engaged the Romulan Cloaking Device so of course you didn't see them!
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