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Jon Danniken wrote:
DGDevin wrote:.
Actually earlier today my wife and I were buying some furnace filters
and a nice HD employee approached us and pointed out a brand of
mid-priced filter that according to her is just as good as the
top-priced one. We'd already decided which ones we were going to
buy, but we thanked her anyway since not responding to someone trying
to help you is pointlessly rude. What would it have cost you to say
you were doing okay and didn't need any help?

Well, you see, that's the difference between you and me. You go into the
store to have your hand held and to and enjoy the social interaction
between yourself and the clerks. That's great.

I have better things to do. I go to the store to buy things to work
with, and I don't need the distraction of dealing with overly aggresive
"help".

Jon
I never have minded that clerks offer help...hell, it's their job. I did
once almost slug a woman in a fancy department store...always have to go
in through the cosmetics dept. and there were clerks standing around with
spray bottles of perfume. One gave me a spritz of unknown perfume as I
passed, without asking or offering that she was about to assault me.

I don't often go to "upscale" restaurants, but they are my biggest pet
peeve....servers who do a dissertation on each wine and menu item. I
didn't drop in to visit with the staff....if they don't print a menu that
I can comprehend, they don't serve food that I want to eat )


How about wait staff who come to a table where there are men and women, and
say "Hi, guys! Are you ready to order?" If they can't tell the difference
between men and women, I chop their tip in half right then and there.

Or, "How's everything?", 15 times during the meal? I know an actual
professional waiter to once told me "If something's not right, I'll know
just by watching you from 30 feet away. I don't need to nag you."