“look sonny back in the good old days we’d pay a nickel to the [redacted] on the corner and he’d figure it all out lickety split, sometime we’d even let em keep the nickel. then they gave em equal rights and that’s what really caused the world wars, you see, the balance of power was threatened and germany knew it and…”
not-slowly backing away
(this has been not far off from most of my boomer and older random interactions in public; or something like they are holding a nice conversation with you and then mention the 5G covid nano robots that are going to activate next Thursday and start killing everyone. I just want to buy my thing and go home, please stop talking.)
They’re just trained to approach you pretty much no matter what. Leaving people alone means youre missing out on opportunities for good business I guess. Just annoying to me, especially when I was working at one.
Now I’m imagining you at work and the jackasses from the Northside store come flooding in and asking customers if they need help. Like a home depot turf war, with customers in the crossfire, running and screaming.
The best idea I've ever seen was a documentation about a shop that had baskets of different colours. One meant "talk to me, I may need help" and one meant "leave me alone, I know what I am doing". That is a great idea for everyone.
I’m too proud to ask for help so I wander around Lowes for 20 minutes trying to find it. Sometimes the website will tell me where it is. I have much better luck at Home Depot.
This is true. I always try to see if I can find the aisle and bin on the website before asking. Some things are tricky though like paint. Depending upon the store, the paint people are either nice or rude. It matters if it’s a wealthy area.
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