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It's the second week after our store closed and we're busy boxing stuff up that we're giving to suppliers or colleagues or want to keep ourselves. We also make regular trips to my father's garage, where we're in the process of building shelves. Today we're also going to the recycle station to get rid of junk.
But when I'm working in the store I sometimes feel like I'm sending away people. When it's warm in the store I open the front door and wedge a rack in the opening (air can easily pass through) with a sign saying we're permanently closed. The same sign I also put up on the window. But people keep ringing the doorbell or even trying to remove the rack. I even had one older man forcefully removing the rack, after I saw him reading the sign, who claimed he thought that the rack was the door.
I suspect most of those people demand I get them an item(s) they need. Saying I don't have any change or a card machine doesn't help, they want to pay by Tikkie (similar to Cash App), some look shocked when you mention payment. Saying those items are boxed up makes them demand you unbox it. And saying we haven't got that item even had one person demanding I order it for them.
A lot of them start whining about where they should go, because they always got their special bulbs here. Which makes me want to say two things: "not my problem" and "if you got your regular bulbs here we might not have closed" (not true but still).
Yesterday I semi jokingly asked my father if he still had the electric fence shocking machine (to put on the rack and/or doorbell).
Ignoring people doesn't work. They remove the rack and come inside, keep shouting or keep ringing the doorbell. When we're upstairs we have to go downstairs because it might be a delivery of mail or a package or one of the few people we don't mind helping.
I'm glad I don't have to be nice to these types of people anymore. But I wish they would just stay away. Yesterday I had to pause what I was doing 11 times over a five hour period to send people away. At least today we've planned to bring some stuff to the garage and go to the recycle station, so we'll be away part/most of the morning.
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