"Huh?" A closing quickie.

[Sofar]

For once this week, we didn't close early. The last customer shuffled out at two minutes to nine. I turned off our shiney red neon open-sign, and brought in the standing sign. I left the door unlocked because employees from next door are usually in an out for a while after we close. Ten minutes after nine, a woman with a loud child in tow waltzed in. I glanced up from my mop and said, "Sorry ma'am, we's closed." She stopped, shrieked, "THAT'S FALSE ADVERTISING!" turned on her heel and left.

[CanadaGirl]

"Holy craaaaap, laaady. Can't you tell the time?"

[Meegz]

Thats pretty much the same reason why we designate someone to clean the front of the store; not only do we let the employees out when it comes time, it keeps the weirdos from coming in. They'll only read the open/close sign if the door is locked. I must seem like a sick person in seeing satisfaction when people get mad and shake their fists when they realize we're closed and I just shrug my shoulders

[friendofjimmyk]

False advertising? Do SCs just reach for the first thing in their pea brains that sounds remotely like you are breaking a law?

In court:

Judge: Now, what happened ma'am?

SC: I was walking to the store and the hours posted were 6 - 9 and it was 8:55 and they told me they were closed! That's false advertising! I want money!

Judge: Case dismissed!

[Necromancer]

Wow. I think that just killed my brain...

[janitordba]

at night,they lock the entrance doors at my store. the csm and cashiers do breakpacks in that area. so they put a sign on those doors,saying to go in thru the exit. everytime some moron comes up and tries to go in thru the locked doors i laugh my ass off. after 5 years its still funny.

[Maevis]

Hahahah!

We close at midnight, lock the doors and there always seems to be some idiot who will pound on the doors and then spend a good few minutes pulling on the handles and ratteling the glass.

But I think the most annoying part is when our front doors clearly state that we open at 10am, and it will be 9:15am, and they stand in front of the door pounding on it or trying to force it open. You know what? Just because you can see me inside the store, does not mean we are open.

Or the guy who used to stand in front of the door with his cell phone and ring the store every 5 minutes for 20 minutes. His reasoning being that he was the "stores BESTEST customer" and therefore we should open the store for him whenever he wanted. bwahahahahaha. not.

[Ryu]

whats funny is at the movies people do the same
they either come in super early when the first movie doesnt start for at least an hour and want to come in or come in at least half an hour after the last movie has started and want to come in
the first, why waste so much time, the second why waste money in not seeing all you paid for?

[AFpheonix]

We rarely close, only if there's, oh say, a fire alarm, or if we don't have a pharmacist on duty. When we've had fire alarms people will STILL try to go through the drive thru, to the point that they're banging on the glass and peering into the darkened, shuttered pharmacy and yelling because they can't get their refill. Did the shiny firetruck up front not clue you in that something's up?
When we don't have coverage (usually if an overnight goes on vacation), we shut down anywhere from 10 pm to 1 am, depending on what pharmacist is closing with me (some are reeeeaaaallllllly slow), turn the lights off, shutter everything and hang signs in the drive thru window, on the shutters and on the front door of the store, and even though we stay really quiet while we finish up filing and filling and whatnot, people still bang on the shutters and whine.
Gah, get stuff done during normal business hours! A lot of the people I get late aren't even from the emergency room, it's usually people that forgot to refill their birth control or another maintenance med.

[karma_gypsy]

What gets me is the people who come before open. The signs aren't on and the doors are clearly locked (that lock and chain around the door handles should be a dead giveaway). And they'll just stand there and watch you through the windows. Hello people, we don't open for another half an hour, I don't plan on being your entertainment until then . . . The people who arrive after close and do that . . . we'll they're just on their own. There is an "hours" sign posted on every door, they can entertainment themselves with that . . .

whats funny is at the movies people do the same
they either come in super early when the first movie doesnt start for at least an hour and want to come in

Hey, I do that . . . only on like Christmas day though when we know the theater will be packed with people and its a big hit movie. We usually try to be the first in the theater so we get choice seats. I hate arriving late or missing the previews.

[Ryu]

erm im assuming you mean you come in an hour before the movie you want to see starts theres nothing wrong with that
im talking about people who come before we're open in which case there are no movies playing, no food ready, nothing, but since employees are there they assume they can see a movie despite it not starting for a while if their even seeing the first scheduled movie
some movies dont start for an hour or two or more after open

[blas]

I wish I coulda had a cabaret dancers outfit or somerhing for at the gas station I used to work at. With all the yoohoos shwoing up too early or after close...meh. I used to laugh at those pulling on the doors or trying to get my attention. But the best ones were the ones who'd pull up to a pump and just blankly stare at me as I counsted the money. I'd press a button to stop the noise (from the pump telling me to authorize it) but wouldnt authroze it. I'd get a blank hopeless puppy dog scare. The one time I felt bad was when a van pulled up and im assuming the parents knew we were closed but if the child went to pumsp the gas I'd feel sorry. The kid stared at me, looking like he was about to cry (his mom better have given him a cookie for that, it was COLD out!) and I styill didn't authroize it. Just kept counting my money.......

So, heirgo.......

The blank stare and hopeless puppy dog look = me quick strip off my uniform and with my cabaret dancer costume underneath do a delightful little dance.

[Jester]

Judge: Now, what happened ma'am?

SC: I was walking to the store and the hours posted were 6 - 9 and it was 8:55 and they told me they were closed! That's false advertising! I want money!

Judge: Case dismissed!

Now that is funny in and of itself, but it is funnier when you realize the time frame involved in the original post....

Judge: Now, what happened ma'am?

SC: I was walking to the store and the hours posted were 6 - 9 and it was 9:10 and they told me they were closed! That's false advertising! I want money!

Judge: Case dismissed! Ma'am, not only am I insisting that you pay the defendant's legal costs, I am going to stipulate that you must take a class in both time-telling and basic mathematics. Ten minutes after the posted closing time is not, in fact, a time when the store should be expected to be open. Court adjourned!