Palen Music Center

The customer came into the store a few times.  He was asking about wanting to put a band together, and wanted an Amy Winehouse tribute band together.  [redacted] doesn’t play anything, to my knowledge.  The employees interacted with him.  We have a lot of students that come into our...

store – close to 300, many who are girls.  [redacted] is 50+ and said he wanted to find a girl to put a band together, which made us feel uncomfortable.  We decided to keep an eye on him.  At one point he came into the store and was walking around the lesson rooms and stopped one of our teachers because he could feel he was being watched.  I didn’t feel comfortable with him approaching a girl, mom, or parent to do this.  He hung up some flyers which we took down.  He interrupted the teacher who was going to teach a lesson.  We gave him the opportunity to leave – didn’t throw him out or anything, but just didn’t feel comfortable, and he didn’t like this.  If he was unaware about the inappropriateness of the situation, I could understand why he wouldn’t be happy.  I talked to him on the phone and he was belligerent and really angry and very confrontational.  We told him we are sorry he felt that way, and sorry he didn’t want to do business with us.  We told him that when he was ready to go, we would do business.  We would be willing to sell him equipment, but not find him a girl to be Amy Winehouse.  This is a family business and I don’t want folks around making people uncomfortable.  I was happy to talk about sound systems but the direction his conversations kept going made us feel uncomfortable.