SaraV Wrote:
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> I am pretty new to shopping, but after reading
> some of the questions I have to ask on various
> shops I am wondering if people thought I was a
> shopper long before I ever started. I have never
> been afraid to ask questions about products I'm
> interested in even when I think they're dumb, and
> I would have never thought twice about buying
> something small. Of course, now I am all self
> conscious about the questions I ask thinking
> they're going to guess I'm the shopper...when
> before i would have never felt weird about asking
> dumb questions.
>
> Also, one of my first shops was a pool supply
> store where I had to ask about one of their
> scenarios. Immediately when I walk in I notice
> that the employee isn't wearing a name tag, but
> when he comes to help me and shows me the product
> that answers the problem I asked about, the phone
> rings. He leaves to answer then comes back wearing
> his name tag. Then I look around the store for a
> while, find something cheap enough for my $1
> reimbursement, and buy it. As the employee is
> ringing it up, another customer is like, that's so
> cheap you should just give it to her! I just
> laughed and said, oh no, I'll pay for it. And the
> employee smiles really big at me and says, I knew
> that's what you'd say! I wasn't acting weird but
> I'm sure he knew I was shopping.
That is the stupidest, most obvious shop in the entire universe. Is there anybody who's done that shop who HASN'T been identified? Yeesh.