Originally Posted by Rev.Chuck
-The biggest fauxpax is not paying attention to your kids when they are in the store.
-If little suzy is crying and says she needs to go to the bathroom take her before she pees on the floor(It has happened)
-If little Billy needs to go to the bathroom and requires help at home you need to help him in our bathroom to(Also happened, crap all over the seat, the handle, on the floor)
-Parents will let their kids take off on bikes running into customers, knocking over displays.
-Kids run around the store pulling stuff off the hooks and leaving it on the floor.
-The shop is not a child sitting service for you while you shop elsewhere.
-Everybody loves bells, until they have been listening to you or your kid ring them for the last half hour. Testing the sound of a bell is a five second process not a thirty minute one.
-If you show up at 9:30am and the lights are out, the sign says closed and the other sign says the store opens at 10:00 but you see a guy in there eating breakfast, let him eat. Don't start banging on the door. Don't start calling on your cellphone(This happens a lot)
-If it is 7:30pm and the lights are out, the sign says closed, the other sign says the store closes at 7:00pm but you try the door anyway(?) and it is unlocked, it does not mean the store is open.
These are not so much bike shop fauxpax as they are general store fauxpax, except for the bells.
Great list. Most of those go for nearly any retail store. Ever seen a kid with a temper let loose on a 'binder isle' at a office retail store? 2 shelves of 3-ring binders: 8, 8ft sections, both sides = 128ft of things they can knock on the floor with little effort.
(This scene was repeated 6 months later when a guy walked out on the job after getting in an argument with the manager - only he took out all 5 shelves)