Are you open?

[portia911]

No. I'm standing here with the doors wide open, the lights and music on, a whoring great open sign out the front and serving other customers because I am in fact, closed.

Dumbarse.

[fireheart]

I get this at work....A LOT.
Basically, if you are on a checkout for whatever reason, whether or not you have the light on, you are thereby assumed to be open.

[PepperElf]

and when you have the lights off and the closed sign out... then they'll assume you're open. *sigh*

[rts]

No. I'm standing here with the doors wide open, the lights and music on, a whoring great open sign out the front and serving other customers because I am in fact, closed.

Dumbarse.

When they do this while am at the register, with the light on, ringing up other customers, my standard reply is...."No, I'm RTS...Open is in the back using the bathroom. He'll be finished in a while!"

[rvdammit]

"I assure you we are open"

[Beefystew]

I never have this problem with people thinking that I am closed. 45 minutes before my store opens, people are banging on the door like zombies and 45 minutes after I am closed, those same Goddamn zombies are still banging on my door. We once turned off the lights for 5 minutes and hid in the back after close to see if that was a clue strong enough for even the weakest minds and you know what, the one man still trying to force our doors open is an actual heart surgeon at the childrens hospital. Wow... I mean... just... wow.

[edible_hat]

No, I just like to stand behind the register, in the store's uniform, and talk to the owner in between taking people's money.

[smileyeagle1021]

I think my reply would be a simple "no" and see if they figure it out

... though most disturbing are you open question (kinda) was "at what time does the hotel close"

hmm, closes at 2am... so everyone needs to be out by 2am

[Fungus]

I loved that one friday morning at 10:45 when the pizza place wasn't open yet for another 15 minutes and this jerk comes to the door pulls on it and just stands there. I went over and said "11 o-clock, we open at 11 o-clock" and he just looked at me like I was an idiot and said "Are you gonna take my order?" I said "At 11 o-clock!" and walked away. He left and didn't come back, oh well.

I had work to do during those 15 minutes.

[dawnfire]

and when you have the lights off and the closed sign out... then they'll assume you're open. *sigh*

yep defintely

now lets see my light is off (not that anyone looks at the lights) and my sign is up. I may be checking someone out (my last customer) but I am CLOSED. Don't assume because I am there I am open.

[CaroPhoenix]

I like the "No, Open is ... " line. However, this is what I'd have to say:

"No, we have no one by the name of Open here. All we have is Darkness and today I'm Lane Bryant." (I've decided my identity will be whatever brand of underwear I'm wearing that day - Saturday, I was Fruit of the Loom and one of my customers was Calvin Klein. ).

[blas]

"Are you open?"

"No, I just don't have a date tonight so I decided to put on my uniform and stand here and waste a few hours so I wouldn't have to be alone."