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The amount of stress and drain this puts on workers is exactly the reason why you should never step foot into an establishment just before closing… Give retail workers the grace of at least 10 minutes; cafes and takeaway shops should get at least 15; and never enter a restaurant for a sit-down meal, even 30 minutes before closing.
But, hey, exceptions to social etiquette happen all the time for a lot of reasons. If you are desperate enough to patronize any establishment within these times, you had better be desperate and apologize profusely.
However, the unforgivable act of entering after closing is exactly that: Unforgivable. If you knowingly enter somewhere after you know they'd usually be shut, you have no ethical leg to stand on. The only reason why those doors are still unlocked is because there are customers in the store, the only reason why workers are still talking to you is because they have to. Just let the poor people go home.
So, when this couple shared their story of an encounter with some "rude" workers, wondering if they were in the wrong for entering the shop for some ice cream 10 minutes after close—the answer was only going to go one way.
Readers declared them to be "a-holes" and in the wrong for the situation, though a disappointing number of clueless people thought that they weren't in the wrong.
See selections of the thread that inspired this post below, followed by some of the reader's responses.
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