How can you go shirtless in THIS weather?

[fireheart]

Just to clarify, we do not have the no shoes, no shirt, no service rule. If we feel uncomfortable, we can refuse service that's it. If they are doing something unsanitary though, then that's definitely a no-no.

[Anriana]

Did he have a lot of insulating chest hair?

[AccountingDrone]

Some friends in college collected quotes like that on their wall. Mine was, "I think I'm like Richard Simmons."

Anyway, there's one guy who comes to the custard stand who has some strange tics. He only ever comes through the drive-thru, and he has this severe arm/shoulder jerking thing going on. The first time I met him I briefly thought he was beginning a seizure.

Assuming it's Tourette's, I guess the motions go away when he focuses. Otherwise, the idea of this poor fellow driving scares me a bit.

It might be parkinsons ... something that runs in my family. My uncle John had it badly enough they finally had to install some sort of electronic device to shock his brain into counteracting the twitches, otherwise he flailed around badly enough that he couldnt even feed himself. Back before it got too bad, the twitching would be controlled by doing something with that hand. I cant remember what it is called, but parkinsons has a particular hand movement in the early stages that you can control if you do something as simple as holding a pair of gloves in your hand. There is footage of Adolf Hitler in the later days where he has the tic in his left hand and starts always carrying something in his left hand. THe motion is sort of a funny folding hand wave. I can imitate it perfectly enough from watching my grandfather and uncle that I had a doctor tell me I was perfect and he dragged in a couple of independant duty corpsmen to see what it looks like.

[blas]

Not every business has a no shirt/no shoes policy that's enforced. I want to say that it's part of the health code and IS mandatory in this state, but a lot of mom and pop type stores do a lot of "discretionary" stuff (you know exactly what I mean). The gas station I worked at, for example, had no issue with shirtless or barefoot customers.

It was so gross.

No ripped guys or bikini calendar girls ever walked in the store to brighten up the day, just fat, overly hairy men and women with watermelon sized, tube sock shaped breasts in extra small bikini tops and ALL the of the neighborhood's finest trashy people always came in barefoot.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

They say you have to be wearing a shirt and shoes to be served at these places--but what about pants?

[Primer]

They say you have to be wearing a shirt and shoes to be served at these places--but what about pants?

I've always wondered about that also, but I've never been brave enough (or drunk enough!) to try it!

[mharbourgirl]

They say you have to be wearing a shirt and shoes to be served at these places--but what about pants?

Trust Irv to find the flaw in any corporate policy ever handed down.

See, time was, it was ASSUMED that noone would need to write 'Be fully dressed or leave...this means pants too!' because noone would ever dream of going to the store without pants on. Nowadays, you have put your finger on the hole in the logic, and it's only a matter of time before that sign will be changing everywhere.