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I was driving down the street one day, caught the red light, and I took a quick glance over my right shoulder. I saw a new store in town. It’s always nice to see when a new store moves in to an empty space.

To be quite honest, the store was an adult store. I looked on the corner where the light was located, what do I see? I see a guy holding a sign, like a picketting sign if you will, protesting the adult store. “Porn Creates Crime” or whatever the hell he was saying. It was rediculous. I promise you that this guy is probably a very very religious man out to kill bad morales. However, this guy does not see me out in front of his church protesting about how often some people go to church! Seriously folks?

Here is a really really good idea. If you don’t like the idea of have an adult store in your community, then don’t go to the store. I never can figure out why the hell it matters why the store is open or not. The people protesting have to at some degree like a little adult activity. I promise that they have a kid or eight. You protesting in front of the store is doing nothing more than providing them support and a channel for them to get more customers.

Explaination:

Store opens. Cummunity resident doesn’t like said store to be opened in his/her neck of the woods. Resident makes HUGE poster/banner displaying his discontent and stands out front of the store on the corner. Here is the issue with doing this:

1. Flashy Colors: Humans like flashy colors; flourescentc colors such as pink, yellow, green, blue! If it is flashy, then yes, we will be interested!
2. Creating and Maintaining Goals: The more a person says don’t go here or there, what happens? The person goes there. For example: You tell your kid to not touch something. You just made that a goal for him. TO TOUCH IT AND GET AWAY WITH IT!!!
3. Rantage: The more one rants about something they don’t like, we have go check the validity of this complaint.

Basically, you are promoting the business you hate! It is almost comparing it to free advertising. So here is my question to those people that feel that protesting out front of a business… WTF do you care? You probably need to get your head examined to ensure that there is somewhat a little activity going on in there. I’m just making a statement to the obvious.

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