Oh dear

First, a little background. (Don't all my posts need background?)

Casa Zen-Samoa is next to a particular building. The top half of this building is an apartment, and the bottom half is an area that used to be a pet store. Said pet store closed about six months before we moved in here; we have lived here about fifteen months. So, about two years it's been closed.

The setup is something like this:
...............................................................X
...............................................................X
..............................................Casa Z-S 1 Building
............................................................1
............................................................1


Let the X's represent a fence that goes back past the backyard, and the 1's represent our driveway. While they are pretty close together, it's still reasonably obvious that they're separate.

Unless you're Yokel 1 and Yokel 2. Said Yokels came flying into the parking lot in their redneckmobile at Mach 5 as Mr. Samoa and I were getting into our car, in our driveway. Yokel 1 comes dashing over and hollers "Are you guys open?" It took us a minute to figure out what the hell he was talking about, and then it dawned on us that he somehow had decided that, since we were within 300 feet of the property, we must be the proprietors! Never mind that 1) huh?, 2) there haven't BEEN any proprietors for two years.

Fortunately for them, they got Mr. Samoa and not me, as I don't do stupid terribly well. He said, "Oh, you mean are they open? They haven't been open for a couple years. You might want OtherPetStore, over yonder." So Yokel 1 and 2 proceeded over yonder, happy. But, do they make a habit of assuming that anyone within the vicinity of an establishment owns it? And how do you not notice, in a time period of TWO YEARS, that a business is closed? It's a mystery.