I'm amazed by the plethora of comments here, but I would like to clarify and add context in the following way.
First, I would have been more than happy to have had this stop at "Me (Mon @ 2.28PM): It's quite illegal to staple signs to trees. Very bad move." There were several courses of action here. They could have ignored my text. They could have stopped and backtracked, taking posters down along the way. Or they could have done something else that would have brought all this back into balance. Instead, they asked me how much ice cream I wanted. What follows from there is a 'reap what you sow' cliche (see point #3).
Second, anyone who thought this was overboard should have read it with the ;) that was intended. This is pretty small potatoes in the whole scheme of things (and even smaller to take the time to flame someone over).
Third, I take this very seriously, but not for the reason(s) you might think. Yeah, it pissed me off that I live on a nice street and have to suddenly deal with all these ugly signs someone stapled to virtually every tree. But the real reason is that I'm a consultant and entrepreneur. I, in fact, mentor quite a number of entrepreneurs, and the most serious point I try to educate them on from the very start is that they have to have a respect for the Law, the Community (they're serving and / or interacting with), and their Customers. That's foundational . . . and the best thing about it is, if they'd really gotten that point, they'd have known exactly the right (and proper) course to take right from the start. That, even assuming the initial mistake of thinking it's Ok to staple posters to trees.
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Date: 2012-05-17 10:09 pm (UTC)First, I would have been more than happy to have had this stop at "Me (Mon @ 2.28PM): It's quite illegal to staple signs to trees. Very bad move." There were several courses of action here. They could have ignored my text. They could have stopped and backtracked, taking posters down along the way. Or they could have done something else that would have brought all this back into balance. Instead, they asked me how much ice cream I wanted. What follows from there is a 'reap what you sow' cliche (see point #3).
Second, anyone who thought this was overboard should have read it with the ;) that was intended. This is pretty small potatoes in the whole scheme of things (and even smaller to take the time to flame someone over).
Third, I take this very seriously, but not for the reason(s) you might think. Yeah, it pissed me off that I live on a nice street and have to suddenly deal with all these ugly signs someone stapled to virtually every tree. But the real reason is that I'm a consultant and entrepreneur. I, in fact, mentor quite a number of entrepreneurs, and the most serious point I try to educate them on from the very start is that they have to have a respect for the Law, the Community (they're serving and / or interacting with), and their Customers. That's foundational . . . and the best thing about it is, if they'd really gotten that point, they'd have known exactly the right (and proper) course to take right from the start. That, even assuming the initial mistake of thinking it's Ok to staple posters to trees.