Are you open yet?

Dear “Are you open yet”,

I would think that the doors inability to swing towards you should be an answer to this question. I know in this day and age of magical little boys and sparkling vampires, your mind may go to a place where a mystical force is causing this to happen, but in reality, the door is merely locked.

The reason it is locked is because, we are not in fact open yet. Yes you do see us inside, we are doing what one would call setting the store up for the day. There are many difficult processes we must go through in order for this to happen. The most important of which is mentally preparing ourselves to deal with the human race throughout the day.

Go ahead, cup your hand against the window and look in for validation, but just know before I begin to help you, I am now going to have to windex down that area you have put your desperate little paws all over. Yep, keep knocking, and know that I am not deaf, nor blind, I am using my own free will to avoid eye contact with you. It is the one part of the day I get to actually ignore people, and I savor every moment of it.

I also appreciate your use of putting your cell phone with the time towards the window, but let me reassure you this place is well equipped with time telling devices, your iPhone is cool, but it is not the only thing capable of capturing such figures. Sure in your mind, it is a mere 3 minutes until open, so for you we should just open.

Let me tell you what three minutes means to me…. It is the equivalent to a third of my ten minute break I count down to once I open those doors. It is also only three more minutes until I have to let you in and hear some sarcastic remark about our inability to honor you.

Keep on pacing and throwing up your hands my friend. It will all be over soon, but in the mean time, I think we may be opening one minute late today.

Sincerely,

Maggie