After seeing loads of comments posted in my shop about 'how long it takes for a banner to be done' I felt like making a short rant.

Right; Firstly, do you (the customers) sincerely expect us bannermakers to devote our entire life to bannermaking? Ignore parents, school, tests, the lot? We have to put up with these things, and most people do, and yet you (the customers) expect us to wholly devote our spare time to fulfilling the requests in our shops. Have you got no respect for the fact that we too are living, human beings? We need our free time, we need our resting time - we need to be given a break from being pestered to spend our whole BZP lives making banners for customers who sometimes don't give credit!

Secondly, is it life-threatening if you don't get your banner done in half an hour? While I admit something like a month is a bit long, a week or two should be acceptable given the amount of time shop workers have split between bannermaking and real life. If you dislike your current banner or something, then why not just remove it temporarily?

Finally, if you do feel that your request has taken too long and you want to check whether it is being done, feel free to ask, but ask politely. Don't go in and say something like 'i ordered my banner two days ago i want it now :angry: ' or that sort of thing. REMEMBER THAT WE HAVE LIVES.

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