Annoying neighbour / business. Suggestions

[LeonG 14,861]

>"Get off my lawn!"

Don't you mean get off my stoop and stop blocking my shop entrance? OP wasn't complaining about someone sitting down for a minute to tie their shoe. He was complaining about would be customers of his neighbour using the stoop as a phone booth as well as a waiting room.

[catjones 1,719]

I know. It's a nightmare.

[catjones 1,719]

#1. Hey, what's up?
#2. Nothing much. Thought I'd call.
#1 Where are you?
#2 Just sitting here outside a custom leather shop.
#1 Really? I need a new belt and Mary was looking for a leather purse.
#2 Wait a minute, The owner just came out and made a big deal about me talking outside his shop. Told me to get away.
#1 Really? Maybe I should look somewhere else a little more customer friendly.
#2 I hear ya

[optimista 5,934]

Well that s a brief exchange. You don t want to get it, do you ?

[catjones 1,719]

Oh, I "get" it. I can detect intolerance a mile away. I find the "solutions" to be drastic and mean. I don't like people like that.
I live in a city to get away from pettiness and small minds.

[fraufruit 42,695]

Do you own a business? Would you want random people blocking the entrance to your shop so that customers can't stroll in and have a look around? You think the OP is intolerant?

Geez.

[LeonG 14,861]

I don't know. I would consider it more of a sign of small mind to feel like you have the right to camp out in front of somebody's store entrance. Then again, cats are not the most considerate of beings nor do they like being told to move once they've sat their ass down somewhere.

[Fietsrad 433]

I think it is better to be careful and not to try humor, provocation, confrontation.

Best maybe to ignore your "conflict partner", then they might go away.

[catjones 1,719]

"Do you own a business? Would you want random people blocking the entrance to your shop so that customers can't stroll in and have a look around? You think the OP is intolerant?"

I have owned a retail business X2, but not in a small town.
I think the solutions are intolerant. Geez

" then sit on the stoop waiting,"
Perhaps someone can point out where the OP said people were "camping"?

." It could have the potential to keep people from coming in my shop."
If I'm reading this right, the OP said "potential".

I'm not passive aggressive, nor am I patronizing. I do have reading skills.

[catjones 1,719]

Walgreens uses classical music to deter loiterers

Reporting by David Roeder
Bach off: Walgreens has decided that playing classical music outside certain Chicago stores will keep away loiterers and panhandlers. Whether a blast of Bach works is anybody’s guess — Walgreens reps declined to explain why it would — but the pharmacy chain along with other major retailers has previously employed symphonic security in the western U.S.

[Fietsrad 433]

I like classical music, it would encourage me to linger.

But in the "Supermarkt" loud pop music is played, that puts me orf and I try to get my food and leave ASAP.🙃

Why do the cheap food stores not play music?

[fraufruit 42,695]

Musak. Better known as elevator music.

😁

[BayrischDude 2,080]

I had no idea this was still being discussed.

no, if someone is simply tying their shoes I would leave them be. FFS. Seriously?

A week or so ago, I returned from the Post at 9:10, to two women, their children and prams on the stoop waiting for the nail studio to open! Typical that no one can be punctual next door. I politely stated I need to enter my shop. They moved slightly out of the way, but not 20 seconds later, they were blocking the entry to my shop. I asked them kindly to remove their prams from the stoop and to not block the entry to my shop. I received grunts and exhales of caustic air. They did so, but grudgingly so.

This is an example of what I deal with. Seriously blocking the door way to another shop? Again... FFS!

[optimista 5,934]

Hmm... must be the clientèle. The people who frequent nail studios are the same sort who are oblivious to the rest of sociéty.

Wonder how many people I can offend with that one.

Or are they trying not to block the pavement by standing on the step ?

[fraufruit 42,695]

I'm not offended but I have to get pedicures because of back problems. I think you are referring to the acrylic nail people of whom many are my good friends.

[catjones 1,719]

Given the huge demand for nail-work, I suggest the OP get out of the leather business and into doing nails.

[Fietsrad 433]

One thing about nail studios, they emit an unpleasant gluey smell.

I wonder whether the substances used pose a danger to health.
...
What class of person uses nail studios? Female, male, divers?

[optimista 5,934]

Hmm... I think my already slightly bemused (is there nothing else ?)
attitude to girly nails was hardened by the semi-illiterate gendarmette on my case last year who could not type anyway but was even more hindered by her black chinese jobs. She looked just the sort. She d be on the step gassing loudly on her time off. Split second weighing up of people upon first sight. Nails, tattooes, face piercings, sparkly eye shadow, super whitened teeth, somehow just screams fake. Guess I have to get over myself now my daughter has a nose ring. Looks like a bull.

[Fietsrad 433]

In the summer one sees so many people who have "verschlimbessert" themselves with tattoos, is that the new normal?

A bit like shaving. That is so unnatural, it was dreamed up only to sell products and make ca$h😕

[fraufruit 42,695]

I don't know how one could compare having nice polished nails with tats and piercings. Really?

Mind you, I don't go for the acrylic/gel claws personally, but I don't have an opinion on those who do.

"What class of person uses nail studios?"

Are you serious?