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September 10, 2011 3:41 pm time for an old fashioned bullet point list • while im not 100% sure it was one of the new crop of college kids....thats really the only people who would have been in here taking pictures and posting to reddit • your 8 year old would never and could never see the sign unless you left them unattended and they were climbing my shop like a monkey...or you held them up to show them. half of my customers today have been families with kids, returning customers. • i almost never refer to the internet by "internet" teh interwebs or the intratubes, webascape or the text-o-sphere...except in this case.....but just like the plural of Lego isn't Legos or soccer is really football i sometimes slip. i also already won the internets one time and was granted immunity anyway • anyone offended by my fake angry old man yells at cloud facade is likely to not shop in here sign or no sign....probably also because of my waxed handlebar mustache, it tends to intimidate the hair challenged....i remember one customer that was all ticked off because i used the word "craphole" 12 feet away from his kid...he seemed rather undisturbed that his kid was also watching the battle of Helms Deep at the time. it was probably the same guy that left a bunch of chick tracts in here and sent me a letter saying he was offended because one of my long boxes said "not reading comics makes the baby jesus cry" • if people want to take their business elsewhere because of me, there is really nothing i can do about since the store is an extension of me. im really quite an agreeable and sociable person, everyone rubs someone the wrong way sometime, it just happens to be my week. i think i added on bullet point to many

September 10, 2011 1:25 pm i can appreciate that you dont think its professional. i just wish the new suburban college kid would have posted pictures of my "no refunds" hammer or anything else about the shop to provide context. i also have absolutely no worries about anyone coming into my shop and leaving only with the impression that sign gives to the internetly enraged. you are more likely to leave laughing at the artwork my 10 and 7 year old daughters and their friends have left on my back issue long boxes...like the daddy + fart = death sign....unprofessional as well i know

September 10, 2011 11:53 am my sign, my shop. if the sign offends you or threatens you in some way then you are not the type of customer that would shop here anyway (you might even be the inconsiderate slob) as my physical appearance would make you too shy to talk to me anyway. originally was targeted to one or two sunday cheapskates (when i am not around, also suspect one particular slob of stealing) sign is in the back corner of the shop where all the incidents take place out of view of 99% of customers (and almost 7ft off the floor)....whoever it was, reads every marvel and dc book and left stacks of them where ever he saw fit. employees have been asked to hover over him and the incidents stopped. my shop is overly kid friendly but to better begin the healing process of enraged interwebbers i have replaced the sign...the new one has only one "asshole", better grammar and punctuation. since this is teh internets please continue on with your preconceived notions of who and what i am. i try my best in the market im in with the tools available to me. maybe a follow up article about "what is wrong with customers" might bring some insight as well