What is so facinating about closing time?
We close our office and store at 10PM. After about 8PM it slows down, save for the late check ins. After about 9:30PM we start cleaning, vacuuming and getting things in line for the next day, since ...
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Last minute customers can carry it to an extreme.
Back in the day I managed an auto parts store. Back then auto parts stores closed at noon of Saturday and did not re-open until Monday. Every week at 11:45 we would get an "emergency" call asking us to wait because they needed that part to fix the car and get to work on Monday. If it was within an hour, mostly we would wait.
One Saturday emergency call asked us to stay. I asked how how long it would take the fellow to get to us. He said that he would be right down, as soon as the football game on TV was over! We didn't wait that day.
Back in the day I managed an auto parts store. Back then auto parts stores closed at noon of Saturday and did not re-open until Monday. Every week at 11:45 we would get an "emergency" call asking us to wait because they needed that part to fix the car and get to work on Monday. If it was within an hour, mostly we would wait.
One Saturday emergency call asked us to stay. I asked how how long it would take the fellow to get to us. He said that he would be right down, as soon as the football game on TV was over! We didn't wait that day.
