Would it be more of an issue to address with the City Zoning Commission? [I Am Politically Incorrect]

There's Putt-Putt Golf where I live directly across from an obnoxious Adult Toy Store.

I'm out enjoying an evening with my friends, whom I consider my family: Not to get all " Karen'ish" but I really don't want to look across the street and see a bunch of low life's playin' golf.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

Errr. yes, I accept you might regard an "adult-toy" shop, the goods such places sell, or sexual activities, as "obnoxious".

I accept you might not object to them, but would think such a shop should be in a more discreet location, or be more discreet in appearance.

For we had the location argument some years back in my own town, when[i]The Private Shop[/i] adult-goods chain opened a branch in a rather prominent location close to the sea-front.

The fuss and nonsense raised by the local arguing over allowing its proposal, before actually opening, in a seaside resort catering for families on holiday, gave it far more publicity than any advertising would have done, and for free!

It had to be properly-licensed and discreet though - name only, no external evidence of its trade, no window displays, window-blinds always closed, no clear view of the interior through the doorway.

In the several years of passing it on my daily commuting, I saw only three customers. One was a smartly-dressed young man who emerged carrying a plain shopping-bag. The others were a pair of young women entering it; one with a baby, making me think well, she doesn't need "adult-toys"! It has now gone, and a computer business took over the vacated premises.

However, I am puzzled by what seems a considerable non-sequiteur.

How do you know the putting-green players are "low-life" - by what definition? Playing the game? Playing it opposite a shop selling rude things? Your observing occasional customers of that shop also playing golf?

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@Bratt OK! Sorry if I took it the wrong way! :-)

There was an odd sequel to the [i]Private Shop [/i]matter though.

A short distance from it, tucked away a little in a quiet residential street, was a long-established independent shop called [i]Discretions[/i]. Whatever it may have sold within the shop, it displayed nothing untoward in its window, just frilly lingerie no saucier than that openly displayed in the larger clothes-shops in the main shopping-street.

Not to be out-done by the [i]Private Shop[/i] arrivistes, [i]Discretions [/i]applied for an "adult-goods" licence (I forget the formal term). That resulted in everyone realising it existed and wanted to sell ruder things than saucy drawers, so eliciting more prissy comments from the Outraged of the Parish, in letters to the local paper, and "concerns raised" in Council meetings.

Among the reasons for objecting was the presence of a nursery-school in the same road - set up a few years previously without problems despite that frilly-nighties shop already on the corner.

[i]Discretions[/i] gained its licence, took the frillies out of the window, drew the curtains and perhaps encouraged by all that unsolicited free advertising in its own turn, carried on trading...

The Private Shop has gone but Discretions still trades, though I think under a different name - and no I have never been a customer of either!

TiffAching · 26-30, F

I saw an indoor [i]blacklight[/i] mini-golf course once in Louisiana. It was like they were [i]daring[/i] people to come inside.

(Pun not fully intended, but ratified after the fact.)