The Cabinet Shop Takes The Don Rickles Approach: Insult Your Customers!
Benjamin | Thursday, December 11, 2008 at 6:50AM 
I've never actually been inside The Cabinet Shop, or known anyone who has, but I'm sure they carry the finest in hand made, locally grown, organically-certified expensive shit.
What I have seen though, along with thousands of other Park Slope residents, is this beyond-retarded sign that they have posted on their front-door:
Listen: People acting like dumbshits with their cellphones is old news. Every day, each one of us witnesses 10 etiquette-impaired phone-abusers that deserve a punch in the dick. Yeah, the thought of someone wandering around an intimate, expensive store like The Cabinet Shop is enough to make you cringe and hope it's not your wife. However, the wording and placement of this sign is more offensive, arrogant, and detrimental to business than having five Jersey JAPs hold a conference call next to the oak armoires.
How bout a fuckin sign that says "no cell phones please."
Doesn't that get the same point across? Wouldn't that be less:
- Sarcastic
- Rude
- Presumptive
- Insulting
- Obnoxious
Qualities that, unless you're Don Rickles, don't normally achieve high yields in the practice of New Business Development?
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Reader Comments (9)
Ha, yeah, I've got to say that this sign has always rubbed me the wrong way...
Why treat potential customers like utter crud - is that the way you want to start off any relationship?
The Cabinet Shop; The right relationship is Everything.
I agree with you - I've talked to my husband about that sign in the past.
If anyone knows them can you please forward them this blog. I hate that sign.
Cell phone? No cabinets for you! Come back, one year!
Don't like the sign?
Vote with your feet and with your wallet...buy your cheap dorm-style bookshelves elsewhere.
I like the sign. It takes balls to risk alienating people to make life more pleasant for others.
anon 10:51 = cabinet shop owner
(obvious)
I'm glad someone forwarded this to you, but why not just get a sign that says "no cell phones please?"
why the rudeness and sarcasm part?
I wanna have a tee-shirt made from that sign. I love it!!
I find the use of a page protector as a sign holder deeply offensive. You could at least write it on a pizza box.
Am I detectng sarcasm when you guys say this place is expenssive stuff? I think the quality of this stuff is crap. I bought 2 pieces fro them a few years ago and had them come pick it up the next day. the feet on the dresser were all facing different ways! no kidding...
now back to the sign...whatever..they could probably use as many customers as they can so why scare anyone away with this stupid sign? knuckleheads..