Hypocritical Restrictions

Yesterday I was at an indoor skatepark in my area. If you ask me indoor parks are a neccesary evil (I like street skating, and don't like paying to skate). This one though is a little absurd. For one thing, their is a "parents lounge" with a sign saying if an under-18 goes they may be banned from the park. This was a little odd and somewhat condescending, but it seemed small enough to ignore.

Then I got to the sign at the entrance to the actual park which is surrounded by a hallway with a payment desk, food and drink machines and restrooms. The sign said, "No food and drink in park or lose skating privileges". This bugged me for two reasons:

1. Should a skatepark have this many threats?
2. Should they really think people would care that much if they got banned from some shitty money grabbing indoor park?

But, I decided it was better than the city of West Bloomfield's park, which had a large rule list (which had some absurd rules, but I won't talk about it right now).

Howver, I saved the most absurd part for last: Outside the actual park (the whole building had a concrete floor for skating) they had signs saying "No skating in this area". No skating in a skatepark? That's lame and idiotic. Needless to say I ignored the sign. No one noticed.