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Rumpelteazer · 05-19-2020, 03:24 AM

The council is going to put stickers on the sidewalks outside stores in the city center to indicate where people have to stand to wait to enter a store. This is to prevent people from standing too close. A lot of stores already made their own waiting lines with duct tape or chalk. But the council thought all those different ways looked too messy and decided to make the stickers. On Friday they spray painted crosses where the stickers will have to be put.

Last week we also saw that people parking their bike in front of the store and people waiting in line got too close. So on Saturday I made signs to put on the window asking people to park their bike across the street, where there is official parking space for bikes and mopeds.

Now I often get annoyed when customers park their bike in front of the store, most of the time there's enough space across the street and if someone bumps against the bike or when it's windy it can fall against the window. If the window breaks it's going to be expensive, because it's a really big window.

I put up the signs on Saturday and of course within an hour a customer with a bike comes walking up, reads the sign and parks his bike not just in front of the window but against it. When he came in and I asked him to move his bike he wanted to go into a discussion because he only had a small errand and nobody's waiting in line, blah blah blah. I insisted and he did move it, but then refused to be helped by me. When he was waiting for his lightbulbs to people walked up, saw that we have a 2 customer limit and waited outside.

We also had several customers coming in together whilst there was already another customer. When asked if one or both of them could wait outside they say that their together. That doesn't mean you count as one person!

We could have 3 people in the store, but we often have to get out behind the counter to get something for a customer and then it's difficult for everyone to keep their distance from each other. Also, we could get a €4000 fine if the police/council thinks you have too many people in the store (excluding employees). So we'd rather play it safe, both for our health and our wallet.

People are obviously having difficulties adjusting to the "5 foot society". The first month it worked but since then people are starting to get tired of and annoyed by it. But it might be here for a while yet. So people will need to start getting used to it.

05-19-2020, 03:24 AM	#33682
Rumpelteazer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,367 Karma: 27919658 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Utrecht, the Netherlands Device: Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition	The council is going to put stickers on the sidewalks outside stores in the city center to indicate where people have to stand to wait to enter a store. This is to prevent people from standing too close. A lot of stores already made their own waiting lines with duct tape or chalk. But the council thought all those different ways looked too messy and decided to make the stickers. On Friday they spray painted crosses where the stickers will have to be put. Last week we also saw that people parking their bike in front of the store and people waiting in line got too close. So on Saturday I made signs to put on the window asking people to park their bike across the street, where there is official parking space for bikes and mopeds. Now I often get annoyed when customers park their bike in front of the store, most of the time there's enough space across the street and if someone bumps against the bike or when it's windy it can fall against the window. If the window breaks it's going to be expensive, because it's a really big window. I put up the signs on Saturday and of course within an hour a customer with a bike comes walking up, reads the sign and parks his bike not just in front of the window but against it. When he came in and I asked him to move his bike he wanted to go into a discussion because he only had a small errand and nobody's waiting in line, blah blah blah. I insisted and he did move it, but then refused to be helped by me. When he was waiting for his lightbulbs to people walked up, saw that we have a 2 customer limit and waited outside. We also had several customers coming in together whilst there was already another customer. When asked if one or both of them could wait outside they say that their together. That doesn't mean you count as one person! We could have 3 people in the store, but we often have to get out behind the counter to get something for a customer and then it's difficult for everyone to keep their distance from each other. Also, we could get a €4000 fine if the police/council thinks you have too many people in the store (excluding employees). So we'd rather play it safe, both for our health and our wallet. People are obviously having difficulties adjusting to the "5 foot society". The first month it worked but since then people are starting to get tired of and annoyed by it. But it might be here for a while yet. So people will need to start getting used to it.