I had a strange experience today as a sahm who feels strongly about one of the candidates today - it doesn't really matter which candidate. A local strip mall has a huge sign out front supporting one of the candidates. I called the company that owns the strip mall and asked if it was their decision or the decision of the individual businesses to place the sign there and they said it was their decision. We often frequent several of the businesses, but are completely turned off by the candidate they are indirectly supporting.
So, I stopped and told the business owners really nicely and calmly that I didn't know if it serves their business well to have the sign out front. That I know it wasn't their decision to place it there, but that my dh and I wouldn't be comfortable frequenting their business with the sign out front and that I thought their landlord was doing them a disservice by affiliating them with the candidate. That we know several other neighbors who are also turned off by the sign.
All three business owners were very nice about it - two of them said they don't like that candidate either and hate having the sign there and I said they should let their landlord know - afterall, they pay rent and the sign is more visible that their storefronts.
Well, some random customer follows me to the car and starts screaming at me. He opened with "get a job b***" I was holding my toddler on my hip and said, I do have a job. He then started ranting about how a rich spoiled woman like me wouldn't know what it was like to be hardworking and that I should stop bothering people and he hoped the cops lock me up
He said I was ridiculous and wasting my life After he stomped off a couple of people who were standing there said how strange they thought his reaction was. I also was surprised that he found comfortable saying I should be at work - when he wasn't at work either 
Does anyone else feel unable to visit a business that is directly or indirectly supporting a candidate they really dislike? I was completely calm and unconfrontational with the business owners, but I do feel that they have the right to know that they are losing a loyal customer based on their corporate landlords position. If an individual business owner wants to stick a sign up then they live with that decision, but the landlord is making the decision for 10 small business owners, you know?
It doesn't really matter which candidate you support, don't like, etc. I just wondered if these sorts of signs impact other parents on MDC. In keeping with the new politics guidelines, I really don't want to start a debate that mentions candidates. More an inquiry as to how people feel about signs at businesses.
So, I stopped and told the business owners really nicely and calmly that I didn't know if it serves their business well to have the sign out front. That I know it wasn't their decision to place it there, but that my dh and I wouldn't be comfortable frequenting their business with the sign out front and that I thought their landlord was doing them a disservice by affiliating them with the candidate. That we know several other neighbors who are also turned off by the sign.
All three business owners were very nice about it - two of them said they don't like that candidate either and hate having the sign there and I said they should let their landlord know - afterall, they pay rent and the sign is more visible that their storefronts.
Well, some random customer follows me to the car and starts screaming at me. He opened with "get a job b***" I was holding my toddler on my hip and said, I do have a job. He then started ranting about how a rich spoiled woman like me wouldn't know what it was like to be hardworking and that I should stop bothering people and he hoped the cops lock me up
He said I was ridiculous and wasting my life After he stomped off a couple of people who were standing there said how strange they thought his reaction was. I also was surprised that he found comfortable saying I should be at work - when he wasn't at work either Does anyone else feel unable to visit a business that is directly or indirectly supporting a candidate they really dislike? I was completely calm and unconfrontational with the business owners, but I do feel that they have the right to know that they are losing a loyal customer based on their corporate landlords position. If an individual business owner wants to stick a sign up then they live with that decision, but the landlord is making the decision for 10 small business owners, you know?
It doesn't really matter which candidate you support, don't like, etc. I just wondered if these sorts of signs impact other parents on MDC. In keeping with the new politics guidelines, I really don't want to start a debate that mentions candidates. More an inquiry as to how people feel about signs at businesses.
Who does that to a mother and child?
