What do you think of these signs on a shop door?

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Rude or reasonable?

I disagree. A business can behave how it wants to. There's no 'right' for someone to use their business and if someone is offended then they have the freedom to keep walking.
I bet there are just as many customers who find the signs funny as there are parents who are offended. End of the day, if they wish to put them up they can.

I suspect the problem is that it wasn't all that was needed.

They only need one sign that says "Strictly no under 18s under any circumstances". It's pointless adding huffy extra bits because the people who ignore the very clear first sign aren't going to respond to the additional one either.

this wouldn’t bother me at all I suspect the people who think it’s terribly rude are the reason they have the sign up in the first place.

I like it, straight to the point and lets people know where they stand. Should be more of it these days.

Tone is direct, grammar is poor.

Yep, it's exactly the same with people who take dogs in places that don't allow them. Your child/dog is not special 🙄

I’d think it was written by someone who was unprofessional and probably immature.
It would put me off and I wouldn’t dream of bringing my kid into a piercing place.
Ime people who put passive aggressive or just outright aggressive signs in their windows tend to be crackpots.
It seems like whoever wrote it has trouble keeping a level head. I wouldn’t particularly want that person putting a syringe through a part of my body.

@FemBotinaManputerWorld syringe doesn't mean what you think it means.

I don't think it's rude.

Needle then. Does it matter? It’s clear what I meant.

Neither sign bothers me. I'm not the target market for that type of shop, but I appreciate the frustration.

Where I work we have very clear, big signs that say children under 14 cannot come beyond certain points. We still have kids running around the waiting area and more than once a child under 14 has been found left on their own while a parent is inside.

I would love to put up a big sign to remind people that my workplace is not a daycare, that this is a building that has suspected and convicted sexual predators in on a daily basis, and that leaving kids unattended means staff are being prevented from doing our jobs because none of us are so morally inept as to leave a child alone around suspected and confirmed sexual predators.

I would have thought this was common sense - even more than not bringing kids into a piercing studio - but it's a regular occurrence. I get sometimes people have no other options, but I've only once had a parent ask for assistance with this, because they were rightly concerned and we worked out an option for her to wait with me in the vestibule just outside the restricted area. The rest just leave their kids with a screen and hope for the best - the youngest I've had was about 6.

Every shop, eh?

Yep.

Because infinite childcare does not exist. Because children will grow up to be dutiful little consumers and need to use shops as part of their adult lives? Because children have money and want to buy things (that aren't sweets or toys). Because leaving kids to wander around high streets while you get 'retail therapy' in is wrong?

It's all over Reddit op, why does it need more traction here? I assume you didn't actually spot this sign in Michigan yourself?

But your child wouldn't be allowed in to get their ears pierced anyway.

School on Monday

I particularly love the additional sign "They are not special" 🤣

I am a parent and I think thank goodness for thst

Not everyone looks at Reddit.
This is the first time I’ve seen the sign.

Sounds like the shop is at the end of their tether with kids.

Despite being crystal some people will still ignore it though.

I'm mostly concerned about all the superfluous capital letters. 😫

Well I wasn’t sure because the sign said “unless they are getting pierced”.
Some piercing places do do children/teens, and try to appeal to parents who want somewhere proper (as opposed to Claire’s). I’ve been in places like that, and also places that don’t allow children at all. I think both are fine, as are places that don’t allow children unless they are the actual customer. I just think it’s an odd tone for a sign if they are also trying to attract teen customers/parents of teens. I wouldn’t take my 12/13/14 yr old there. Not in a stroppy “well you’ve lost my custom!!” kind of way. Just because I wouldn’t view it as a teen place.