Open Door Sign

Friday rolls round again, the day that Open Door put their sign out to show that they're open.
Now, the other businesses that have had signs by the horse trough, especially the Globe, all have other ways of advertising themselves, but Open Door don't, and if the sign isn't there, people think they're closed, and don't go down.
So I got to thinking that I didn't want to see the sign being messed with again.
I went round to all my neighbours (except Mr Pugh, who I didn't manage to catch) and all of them were sympathetic to Open Door, and all of them like Jean, who runs it, and most of them were annoyed that someone had objected to the signboards in their name, without asking them.
So I dropped a note round to Jean telling her what I'd done, and that we'd all thought it was a good idea for her to move the sign down a bit and tie it to another post, if she wanted to, and we would all say she had our permission to do that.

As it turned out this morning, Jean put the sign in the usual place, because that was what she was advised to do by the police. Once the objector actually removed the sign completely (which he did last week), rather than stuffing it down the back of the horse trough, he was committing an offence, and the police could get involved.
She put a little note on it along the lines of "Please do not remove this sign, because if you do you are committing an offence. The police would like to speak to you."

It's been there all day.