Sometimes, people need to be told when enough is enough, and a convenience store in North Carolina had to put its foot down with customers. Very specific customers, to be exact: the store bans people from bringing their snakes into the establishment. In a post shared on r/SignsWithAStory, RogueGuybrian uploaded a photo of a corner store near their home, and a sign in all caps was on the front door. Customers are not allowed to bring large bags, dogs, or snakes into the shop.
Why the store manager would want to specify a snake ban for customers is a mystery, as RogueGuybrian didn’t expound on any instances involving someone bringing their serpentine pets into the convenience store. Considering the sign was printed very specifically to ban snakes and dogs, something could have happened in the past to warrant such a policy. Whatever the case, people found the sign rather humorous.
Reddit Found the North Carolina Convenience Store Snake Ban Sign Funny But Confusing
“Awesome, pet honey badger ok,” joked a commenter, to which another replied, “Right?! And pet rats and parrots and ferrets…” A third person questioned why this policy even had to be mentioned: “My brain as I read the sign: normal, normal, normal, … who needed to be told this?”
One Redditor claimed he knew a pet snake owner in his town and said it’d be understandable why a store wouldn’t want the reptiles inside. “They have a very unique… smell to use polite language,” the user remarked. Though, several people believed the owner could have simply said “No Pets” instead of being so specific.
On the other hand, a few were focused more on the “$1,000 Reward” to customers reporting people committing crimes in the store. “They ain’t paying out that 1k. So sick that the poor need to pit the poor against each other,” sighed a commenter. While that wasn’t the sign OP was trying to point out in his post, he claims to know convenience store workers who’ve been robbed at gunpoint.
“Most of the time the robbers have gotten away. That’s not cool either,” he expressed. Crime aside, the snake ban is still quite an unusual thing to see as a store policy.
