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MeMelYup wrote:Grapevine mills mall: thinking about this, wouldn't it be better to contact all the merchants located there and explain why you won't visit their establishments?

Did that years ago, most of the responses were non-commital, while those from the stores with outside entrances actually encouraged me to visit them because they didn't have any signage.

Abraham wrote:What about service monkeys?

I would think they'd be a lot more helpful than a dog.

They have hands and a prehensile tail.

O.K., back on topic: Someone, a few posts back asked denied entrance by a 30.06 sign how could they give the business their card.

Answer: Mail them the card.

No, it's not as satisfying as handing them a card personally, but sometimes it better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

In a couple of instances I stood outside the business and requested that an employee send the manager out to speak with me. One was at a shop on Mockingbird in Dallas that catered to the "tree hugger" and such crowd, with a compliant 30.06 sign in the window. I was there to buy my wife a hammock that they had advertised, and almost didn't see the sign as I walked up. I stood in front of the door until and employee came to ask me if there was a problem, and I said there was and I needed to see a manager. When the manager came out I complained about all of the bicycles parked on the sidewalk that were impeding people from using it, and then pointed to the sign, carded her and told her there were two reasons why she wasn't getting my money today and walked away. She blustered something and then decided to call me names instead.

When my wife and I were shopping for a new car for her, she was interested in a Kia like her friend had. We stopped at the Kia dealer on 75 in Plano and were immediately inundated by salesmen before we even got out of our (obviously new) car. We walked the parking lot with one of the overbearing salesmen and then he was taking us inside to see other selections, and to try to pin us down, when we spotted the non-compliant sign. I pointed it out to my wife, she said "Oh No!" and the salesman said "What's wrong?" at which point I indicated the sign and told him that Kia discriminates against law abiding citizens, handed him a card and turned around and walked away. The sales manager was summoned, rapidly, and he came out and blustered about the city requiring the sign, which I pointed out was a lie, and then told me that he would let me come in, which I told him would be a violation of the law (but I have no idea) and gave him a card and we left while he followed us down the parking lot trying to talk over the radio which I turned up.

At least one other place I was already inside before I saw the sign and just asked for a manager and gave him the card before leaving.

I have mailed an expanded version to Grapevine Mills.

And I have one to Bass Pro Shops a long time ago, and within a week their (non-compliant) signs came down, as well as sending me a letter of apology.

I have been printing my own for years, and passing them out.