You've got moles in a cage. You've got a Michael Nutter problem. The solution should be obvious. My question is who is Nutter expecting to be a customer? It seems that Nutter has a particular problem with bicycles and their riders. I think it is a mistake, however, to determine who a good customer is by bicycle ridership. I lived near Davis, CA for a while. Lot of money in Davis, lots of bicycle riders on very expensive bicycles. If Mrs. Moneybags wants to ride her bicyycle downtown on a sunny day and check out some jewelry will Nutter give her the bum's rush? People with lots of money do not take kindly to being treated badly. I also find, from a customer service perspective, that it is impossible to selectively treat people well. You can treat all of your customers and potential customers well or you can treat them poorly, but you can't manage to do both. False good customer service is transparent and it is even worse than bad customer service. I stand by my earlier prediction in another post, Nutter will be out of business by Thanksgiving. I just hope he doesn't leave the landlord holding the bag on the rent.

"I would make it impossible for the covetous and avaricious to utterly impoverish the poor. The rich can take care of themselves."
^@^

...and make sure the beans are undercooked.

Yeah. The same thing happened to me. The bike rack was fully occupied and I was going for coffee at B&B, so I went to lock up to the light pole. He came out and whined at me, "Not on public property, please. Use the bike rack." I ended up walking around the block to find appropriate bicycle parking.

I think the next time I'll just ignore him and lock up to the light pole. I'd be done my coffee before they could cut the lock.

The Canaanite's Call

There have been a lot of complaints about Nutter's hostile / unwelcoming behavior.

That said, I'm almost tempted to buy a cheap second-hand bike I don't want to keep just for the joy of walking it down the sidewalk and pausing near B&B.

That is the most blatent example of false advertising since my suit against the movie The NeverEnding Story
Lionel Hutz

If you ever hop onto the blog please keep this in mind:

I'm a single guy, I plan on getting married someday (pray for the poor woman) and if at all possible would like to buy wedding jewelery locally. I have purchased several pieces of jewelery in the last 10 years for girlfriends and family. Please don't assume that the people on Olyblog are not your intended customers. You may have driven a few of us away at this point though and that is very much your loss.