no shirt, no shoes....

no service. You always see these signs at places like wal-mart, and grocery stores. I am wondering what they would say if you didn't wear shoes, or a shirt. The signs don't say that you can't be in the store barefoot or topless, they simply state that they will not serve you. What if you are just looking around, or better yet, what if you use one of the self checkouts. No one is really serving you, you are helping yourself.

 

I don't know, but I go into stores all the time in the summer sans shoes and with just a bathing suit top on. I've never been thrown out :H

 

i don't think i've ever seen a man without a shirt denied service, and god knows i only wear shoes when they're a total necessity.

 

i have been asked to leave a few of our finer large gizmo n gadget chains,,,, in one of them the person i was with n i made a big scene n asked for the laws n health codes etc, before we actually left....they would not allow us to purchase the few hundred dollars of widgets we had n i aint never stepped a dressed or nekkid foot in there again...

 

have you ever seen a man without a shirt in Wal-mart or a grocery store?

 

many times, mostly in the summer

 

oh my ol hairy fuzzy shirtless boss once stopped at our local gasemup station,,, where he had been goin topless for twenty years n was told to go home ,,,, he promptly told them off n they would lose our 3000 a month account there ,,,, needless to say they still go there....

 

No shirt,no shoes,no dice.

learn it, live it.

 

You should come to the 7-Eleven near where I live. There are barefeet a plenty lol.

 

Good point... They don't seem to enforce the rule very much, especially the shoes one. And stores often serve shirtless men just fine, but I wonder what they'd do if a shirtless woman tried... Have to find that one out.

 

going barefoot around here is pretty much a bad idea cuz there is all kinds of shit to step on

 

no shirt, no shoes, no service....

noone said anything about not wearing PANTS....

 

I'm willing to test this out

 

i would but it's still cold in canada....

 

cold or not......i want to go pantless

 

they will politely ask you to leave. then if you don't and it's the manager or the owner or whoever put up the signs, or the clerk is worried about losing their job or what have you they might call the cops. those signs started appearing back in the day of the origeonal hippies. we were NOT unanimously lauded as heros. a few were even not all that well behaived. city and county health departments started passing ordinances too. many of which are still on the books. most resaurants in the u.s. CAN'T legaly serve you if you're not wearing socks and shoes, just as they can't if you've got a nonhuman friend with you unless it's a handicap assistance, i.e., seeing eye, dog, miniature poney, what have you.

i think it's silly, assinign and the shits, but in many if not most places in the u.s. it's the idiotic backward headed law.

most places you can't ride the bus without something on your feet too.

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Why the heck don't they serve you if you don't have shoes or a shirt. Thats D U M B! "I'm not going to serve you because you don't have a shirt on, i don't like that" Thats lame...

 

man, that's so crazy.

i was talking to some american exchange students a few days ago and they have labelled new zealand a 'barefooters paradise' basically beacsue not many people blink an eye if you bowl around with no shoes and no shirt.

I have only seen one sign in my entire life that actually said it wouldn't serve anyone (and that was in a super flash restaurant). most supermarket type places just don't care. If you wanna go around with no shoes, all power to you.

it's just such a non-issue here...

 

And the sign says "Long-haired freaky people need not
apply"
So I put my hair up under my hat and I went in to ask him why
He said you look like a fine outstanding young man, I think
you'll do
So I took off my hat, I said "Imagine that, huh, me working
for you"

[Chorus:]
Signs, signs, everywhere there's signs
Fuckin' up the scenery, breakin' my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign

And the sign says "Anybody caught trespassing will be shot
on sight"
So I jumped the fence and I yelled at the house
Hey! What gives you the right!
To put up a fence and keep me out, or to keep Mother Nature in
If God was here, he'd tell it to your face, man, you're some
kind of sinner

[Chorus]

Oh, say now mister, can't you read
You got to have a shirt and tie to get a seat
You can't watch, no you can't eat, you ain't supposed to be here

And the sign says "You got to have a membership card to get
inside" - uh!

[Solo]

And the sign says "Everybody welcome, come in, kneel down
and pray"
But then they passed around a plate at the end of it all
And I didn't have a penny to pay
So I got me a pen and a paper and I made up my own fuckin' sign
I said, "Thank you Lord for thinking 'bout me, I'm alive
and doing fine", oh

[Chorus 2x]

Yes! Some old song, called "Signs Signs", I wish we
did write that one, but
We didn't - wow!

Alright

 

For once, I wish Peaceful_Jeffrey was still around. He'd certainly go off in this thread

If you involved Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream and made a few mispellings and Jeffrey caught wind, this thread has the makings of one for the hipforums ages.