Hell's Bells

So you know those restaurants that have a bell attached to a wall somewhere on your way out the door that you're supposed to ring if your service was good?
Well, we have one of those.

^Looks kind of like this

The sign doesn't specify on how many times you should ring it, but once is pretty standard. We don't mind if you ring it twice, or if your kids ring it a couple times. What we do mind, is when some group of teens comes in and thinks that trying to ring the bell so much that it chips the wood plaque it's on and makes everyone around them go deaf is an awesome idea. This happens fairly often. And we do, in fact, have a chip in the wood plaque that the bell is on. Weren't those guys cool?


Except for not.


And then we have the people who try to steal the clapper part of the bell. Just in case you're not sure what that is, it's the part that hits the inside of the bell to make the sound. Now, seeing as ours is so small, we have a rope/tassel-type-thing tied to it. To answer your other question: Yes. People do actually try to steal that. Not too often, but it has happened. I'm not quite sure what you would want with that. Although I suppose that's easier than trying to take the whole bell. Maybe for a souvenir? I can just imagine that story...


"Hey guys! Look what I stole from that *insert restaurant name here* we go to all the time! I don't think they saw me doing it. Man, what an adrenaline rush. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it. Maybe I'll make it a key chain, or a necklace, and wear it every time we go there!"


Hours later:
"What the *bleep* am I going to do with this thing? Maybe I should just take it back so we can ring the *other bleep* out of the bell."