The “While You Were Out” form is a simple way to communicate with your local businesses. It gives you a polite way of letting a business know that you’d would have spent money in their establishment, but because they weren’t open, you couldn’t. I’m planning to use these in my community. There are four coffee shops in town, but I can’t count the number of times I’ve made the 20 minute drive into town only to find that none of the four were open. Just download and print out the PDF template and keep some in your wallet or purse. 
Form via VisuaLingual.