Freeper intimidating store owners with boycott.

[Reciprocity]

For having a K/E sign in front of store.


I've been a bad girl (but in a good way) *VANITY*
Posted on 10/28/2004 7:20:55 PM PDT by Selkie
Was out for an evening walk in my town. Hoboken, NJ Spotted three people carrying stacks of kerry/edwards signs. They were going into each and every business along Washington St and asking store owners to display the signs in their windows. I shadowed them for a while and went in every store they went in, after they left the store. I inquired if the store owners/employees were accepting the signs. A few did. Luckily the few that did admit to taking the signs know me as a customer. I told them that I give my patronage to them in the future if they chose to display the signs. They all promptly said no they wouldnt put them up an dhanded the signs to me. After the kerry supporters hit about half the stores in town on Wash. St., they caught on to me and freaked out. It was a wonderful thing to watch. Total outraged meltdown. They didnt say anything but stared at me and nervously started walking away from me while turning back to stare at me. The one of them got on her cell phone and started to whine to someone that their night had been 'radically undermined'.
Anyway I feel oddly relaxed and refreshed after annoying demonrats for sport.

To: Selkie
correction - would NOT give my patronage to them if they put up kerry signs.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1260836/posts

[Not Me]

1. Actually, I am surprised that businesses would post signs...

It's just not good business...especially when there is a ~50/50 split. Why would you want to alienate existing potential customers?

There's a casual restaurant on the water not far from here. We have been meaning to check it out for almost 6 months, but just haven't gotten around to it. I noticed last week, the lot and walkway up to the front door is plastered with B/C and Mel Martinez signs.

We won't go there. Ever.
And he/she will never know why.

[BattyDem]

2. So you're telling me that ...

not one, but SEVERAL stores removed the sign because ONE person said she wouldn't shop there anymore? I know people from Hoboken, NJ ... they don't like to be told what to do. This doesn't pass the smell test.

[Ima]

5. to Selkie

Now aren't you the big, bad important one:puke:

[txindy]

14. No, it sure doesn't pass that test, at all.

Not only wouldn't they change their minds about the signs after one person complained, but they sure wouldn't hand the signs over to that person! What a preening fraud.

[CottonBear]

3. Freepers have failed English 101.

Hell, they would have failed 4th grade spelling and grammar.

[LiberalFighter]

10. That's why gw* talks down to them

[CottonBear]

13. That is a sad, but true observation.

I know many of those people. Hell, I'm related (by marriage) to some of them. It is so awful how they are so easily manipulated. God help us all.

[Steelangel]

4. wow, Selkie is delusional big time

Selkie, you are good at making up the stories, I applause you.

[Cats Against Frist]

6. Yeah, imagine my chagrin when 20 bottles of "W" Ketchup

were on the tables of my crowd's favorite breakfast hangout. Let's just say that the integrity of the bottles was "compromised."

[MercutioATC]

7. Excuse me, but didn't we just threaten to boycott Sinclair advertisers

last week?

Seems turnabout's fair play to me. This isn't a "Freeper trick", it's a legitimate way to protest a business' decisions.

[Reciprocity]

8. The big difference is that we did not physically follow someone around.

I find that creepy to say the least.

[MrMonk]

9. Ego trip

and likely an outright lie.

Store owners, in general, do not post political signs in their shops. It makes a bad impression and alienates some people.

Now, it's possible that some manager or staffer took a sign out of politeness. They might even have given it to "Selkie" to shut her up. But, considering the amount of foot traffic on Washington Street, and the number of moneyed yuppies (is that still the term?) in downtown Hoboken, there is no way that a storeowner would be afraid of losing "Selkie" as a customer.

It makes an interesting picture, though. There goes "Selkie", bug-eyed with righteous indignation, grimly stalking a small group of Kerry supporters through downtown Hoboken, all the while clutching her small bundle of contraband Kerry signs to her chest. After a while (it must have been a long while for them to hit "half the stores on Wash. St.") someone from the happy group notices the strange woman who has been following them so closely. "Poor thing," she thinks, "that must be one of those unfortunate, mentally disturbed people, turned out onto the street by Republican social policy. But why is she dresssed that way?" Then, she notices the crushed Kerry signs and the wild look in the woman's eyes. The look of a demented paranoiac, who is ready to strike out randomly at those about her. "Selkie" growls, flecks of foam flying from her snarling lips. The little band of Kerry supporters huddles together and nervously eases themselves away from the woman, who has now taken on the aspect of cornered beast. One of them takes out her cell phone and dials for help, to tell someone about this woman who "is rabid or lost her mind."

[Reciprocity]

11. Good one Rumpole! LOL

Okay I have to say it . Rumpole of the Bailey.

[The Wielding Truth]

12. So funny . Thank you, Rumpole.

[CAcyclist]

15. She's making it up

Most businesses won't post political signs or have rules from the landlord about posting signs in windows. But the ones who will post signs are the ones expecting to get people like this and are willing to lose them.

I'm not allowed to post signs in my window because I'm in a strip mall as a leasehold , but I did post a bulletin board on a wall in the lobby that states that "this clinic stands opposed to the Iraq war" and its been on the wall since I bought the practice in 2002. Yes, I live in a liberal area, but I still think it is significant that I have only had one person in that time refuse to patronize my clinic. And for that, I say good riddance.

(edited sp)

[Starlight]

16. Kerry-Edwards signs are a rare commodity in NJ.

Everyone wants them & there are none available. People are driving to neighboring states to pick up signs. I doubt very much that anyone is out begging people to take their signs. :)

[stranger_with_candy]

17. WOW

That is really hard to read without going dizzy.

[Reciprocity]

18. Oh my, read this from the same thread.

My husband has a 16-or-so-year-old cousin that's turning into a rabid Republican. I'm so proud.

She approached her dad (a Kerry/union koolaid drinker) and said "Dad, if I got pregnant would you want me to get an abortion?"

He said "You need to talk to your mom about this."

She goes "No, I'm asking you. Would you want me to?"

He said "No, if you get pregnant then you've got to live with it and have the baby."

Her reply? "THEN WHY ARE YOU VOTING FOR JOHN KERRY?!"

She also took her dad's Kerry bumper sticker off his car and stuck a W one in its place :)

*sniffle* I remember when she was just a little kid ...
27 posted on 10/28/2004 7:40:28 PM PDT by WV910