Clearly Closed: Blog about Closed Shops with Open Signs

• sarah!
  July 20th, 2008 at 3:21 pm

  this is hilarious.. in my tiny alaskan town i worked at a gift shop for a few years, and my first night closing by myself, i committed this crime.. it was a saturday, we closed at 6pm, i went home, then out to dinner with my family later. we drove past my work and.. BOOM! there in the darkened window blazed our neon OPEN sign. i was so embarassed, the boss was out of town till late sunday evening, and no one else had keys!

  she kept me around though.. had a pretty good sense of humor about the whole thing, though i got my share of ribbing.. tiny town and all!

• Paul in Boca
  July 20th, 2008 at 4:18 pm

  Methinks Daniel has too much time on his hands

• Sunny
  July 20th, 2008 at 5:35 pm

  That could get kinda boring as a blog concept, I think.

  However, there is a comics store very near my house who ALWAYS leaves their open sign on. 24/7/365. Drives me bonkers.

• Matt
  July 20th, 2008 at 5:42 pm

  I’m a pretty big fan of this idea…it always bothers me to see stores that do this night after night.

• _Jon
  July 20th, 2008 at 6:47 pm

  Many of my clients leave the “Open” sign on as an indicator to the police. They have an agreement that if the sign is off, there is a problem.

• stormie24
  July 20th, 2008 at 9:18 pm

  I’ve done this before.

  _Jon: what if the sign breaks or the light goes out…will the S.W.A.T. team show up? hehe ;o)

• lucky
  July 20th, 2008 at 11:17 pm

  literally my biggest pet peeve ever…makes me rage!!!

• JC
  July 21st, 2008 at 1:48 am

  I agree with Sunny. It´s boring in my opinion.

• Brian Lutz
  July 21st, 2008 at 11:40 am

  “In my dreams, she is reaching past my hollow core, and her smile is an open sign on an abandoned store…”

  -TMBG, “Mink Car”

• matt
  July 21st, 2008 at 3:15 pm

  Is the internet all finished now?

• ted
  July 21st, 2008 at 7:42 pm

  I think so, matt. I think so. Time for the next fad.

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