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Shopping in Peace, or Avoid the Droid
Is it just me, or does anyone else just like to mind their own business when
they go to the hardware store to spend money? I'm doing a tub surround right now, so I go to my local HD to get supplies. By the time I get to the paint department I already have about five people asking me how I'm doing, sticking their nose in my business, and trying to "help" me. Having shopped at HD for awhile now, I know better than to listen to any "advice" the orange aprons have to say. On the rare situation in which I need to know where something is, I will *ask* for help. So I'm left relatively unscathed in the paint department, it's nice and quiet, so I had time to shop and pick up a few more things than I had come in for. Tile area is quiet also, bought additional items, thought about grout color, enjoyed my shopping trip. On my way to electrical, I had no less than three kids telling me I needed help. When I'm in electrical, two more overcaffeinated droids try to engage me, not realizing that I've been buying duplex outlets longer than they have even been alive. By this point I'm flat out just ignoring them, so after asking me how I'm doing, one of the idiots tells me I must be having a bad day. What the hell? Why is ignoring an onslaught of undesired contact with strangers evidence of a bad day? When did going to the hardware store turn into me having to babysit a bunch of snot-nosed kids with my personal disposition and the details of my own damn business? Now, I realize I might be the exception these days, perhaps the majority of their clientele are lonely housewives eager for some touchy-feely social interaction from bored big box employees, but is it too much to ask that a guy be left alone to buy his hardware in peace? Sheesh! Jon |
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"Jon Danniken" wrote in message ... Is it just me, or does anyone else just like to mind their own business when they go to the hardware store to spend money? I'm doing a tub surround right now, so I go to my local HD to get supplies. By the time I get to the paint department I already have about five people asking me how I'm doing, sticking their nose in my business, and trying to "help" me. Having shopped at HD for awhile now, I know better than to listen to any "advice" the orange aprons have to say. On the rare situation in which I need to know where something is, I will *ask* for help. So I'm left relatively unscathed in the paint department, it's nice and quiet, so I had time to shop and pick up a few more things than I had come in for. Tile area is quiet also, bought additional items, thought about grout color, enjoyed my shopping trip. On my way to electrical, I had no less than three kids telling me I needed help. When I'm in electrical, two more overcaffeinated droids try to engage me, not realizing that I've been buying duplex outlets longer than they have even been alive. By this point I'm flat out just ignoring them, so after asking me how I'm doing, one of the idiots tells me I must be having a bad day. What the hell? Why is ignoring an onslaught of undesired contact with strangers evidence of a bad day? When did going to the hardware store turn into me having to babysit a bunch of snot-nosed kids with my personal disposition and the details of my own damn business? Now, I realize I might be the exception these days, perhaps the majority of their clientele are lonely housewives eager for some touchy-feely social interaction from bored big box employees, but is it too much to ask that a guy be left alone to buy his hardware in peace? Sheesh! Jon Jon.... Next time someone says to you "have a nice day" Just say don't tell me what to do" (Grin) ww |
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"WW" wrote in message . .. "Jon Danniken" wrote in message ... Is it just me, or does anyone else just like to mind their own business when they go to the hardware store to spend money? I'm doing a tub surround right now, so I go to my local HD to get supplies. By the time I get to the paint department I already have about five people asking me how I'm doing, sticking their nose in my business, and trying to "help" me. Having shopped at HD for awhile now, I know better than to listen to any "advice" the orange aprons have to say. On the rare situation in which I need to know where something is, I will *ask* for help. So I'm left relatively unscathed in the paint department, it's nice and quiet, so I had time to shop and pick up a few more things than I had come in for. Tile area is quiet also, bought additional items, thought about grout color, enjoyed my shopping trip. On my way to electrical, I had no less than three kids telling me I needed help. When I'm in electrical, two more overcaffeinated droids try to engage me, not realizing that I've been buying duplex outlets longer than they have even been alive. By this point I'm flat out just ignoring them, so after asking me how I'm doing, one of the idiots tells me I must be having a bad day. What the hell? Why is ignoring an onslaught of undesired contact with strangers evidence of a bad day? When did going to the hardware store turn into me having to babysit a bunch of snot-nosed kids with my personal disposition and the details of my own damn business? Now, I realize I might be the exception these days, perhaps the majority of their clientele are lonely housewives eager for some touchy-feely social interaction from bored big box employees, but is it too much to ask that a guy be left alone to buy his hardware in peace? Sheesh! Jon Jon.... Next time someone says to you "have a nice day" Just say don't tell me what to do" (Grin) ww Boy Jon you must be too sensitive. Most of the people at HD are part timers. My daughter works there and yes she does not know a hilti from a lawnmower, but they are instructed to engage the customers by asking them if they can help and smile. If they don't they get written up. For the measly $8.30/hr they get paid you ought to be glad that they talk to anyone. Most of them are there trying to make a living so give them a break. All you have to do is smile back and say thanks but I don't need any help. Lighten up. R |
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Roanin wrote:
All you have to do is smile back and say thanks but I don't need any help. Oh, I have to do that 12 times when I go into a store to purchase things? I'll put that down on my list: $80.00 of items and face time with 12 complete strangers who are rude enough to get in my face and expect social interaction. Sorry, but I have better things to do with my day than to spend it with hardware store clerks so I can give them pity time. They need to find something to do that isn't bothering people who are minding their own business. Jon |
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On Nov 27, 1:56*pm, "Jon Danniken"
wrote: Is it just me, or does anyone else just like to mind their own business when they go to the hardware store to spend money? I'm doing a tub surround right now, so I go to my local HD to get supplies. By the time I get to the paint department I already have about five people asking me how I'm doing, sticking their nose in my business, and trying to "help" me. Having shopped at HD for awhile now, I know better than to listen to any "advice" the orange aprons have to say. *On the rare situation in which I need to know where something is, I will *ask* for help. So I'm left relatively unscathed in the paint department, it's nice and quiet, so I had time to shop and pick up a few more things than I had come in for. *Tile area is quiet also, bought additional items, thought about grout color, enjoyed my shopping trip. On my way to electrical, I had no less than three kids telling me I needed help. *When I'm in electrical, two more overcaffeinated droids try to engage me, not realizing that I've been buying duplex outlets longer than they have even been alive. By this point I'm flat out just ignoring them, so after asking me how I'm doing, one of the idiots tells me I must be having a bad day. What the hell? *Why is ignoring an onslaught of undesired contact with strangers evidence of a bad day? *When did going to the hardware store turn into me having to babysit a bunch of snot-nosed kids with my personal disposition and the details of my own damn business? Now, I realize I might be the exception these days, perhaps the majority of their clientele are lonely housewives eager for some touchy-feely social interaction from bored big box employees, but is it too much to ask that a guy be left alone to buy his hardware in peace? Sheesh! Jon How you doing? |
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Jon Danniken wrote:
On my way to electrical, I had no less than three kids telling me I needed help. When I'm in electrical, two more overcaffeinated droids try to engage me, not realizing that I've been buying duplex outlets longer than they have even been alive. By this point I'm flat out just ignoring them, so after asking me how I'm doing, one of the idiots tells me I must be having a bad day. Asking if you need help is their job, it's what they get paid for. Normally when I'm in Hell Depot I can never find any employee much less one interested in helping me, having several offer to do so is amazing. 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? |
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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 |
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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 Wow. Hope you treat your customers nicer than that. While I do understand where you are coming from regarding sales droids that attach themselves to your leg, I agree with the others that say you are being unnecessarily harsh in this case. I mostly get the aggressive ones in stores that work on commission. In the big-box home supply places, I usually don't get anyone, or if I do, and don't need any help, a 'just looking, thanks' sends them on their way. And at times, due to how randomly the stores are laid out, it is nice to have somebody lead me to where something is. (ie, for no apparent reason, the colored coil stock flashing is in a different location from all the other flashing.) No, most of them are pretty useless on technical info at my local place (aside from one old coot in the plumbing aisle), but most are sensible enough to not try to BS their way through it. (As opposed to the local best buy, where the snot-nosed kids pull info out of their ass, and won't go away. I avoid shopping there, unless my need is so urgent that on-line is not an option. On-line is almost always significantly cheaper anyway.) -- aem sends... |
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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 ) |
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" wrote: 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 used to stop and ask if the stuff had alcohol in it (and it almost invariably did). Then I asked where the nearest hospital was since the medication I was on would cause my blood pressure to skyrocket with any contact with alcohol. I'd then leave the area at a dead run. -- To find that place where the rats don't race and the phones don't ring at all. If once, you've slept on an island. Scott Kirby "If once you've slept on an island" |
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In article , " wrote: 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 used to stop and ask if the stuff had alcohol in it (and it almost invariably did). Then I asked where the nearest hospital was since the medication I was on would cause my blood pressure to skyrocket with any contact with alcohol. I'd then leave the area at a dead run. I solved that problem by not even shopping in stores like that any more. (Only had one or two like that around here anyway, where the main entrance was the cosmetics counter.) Hoity-toity department stores seldom have anything in my size/price range/ style I would be caught dead in anyway. -- aem sends.... |
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m... 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." |
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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. Making that statement based on what I posted requires either a lack of reading comprehension on your part or a lack of simple honesty. 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 Ah, I see, one of those. Some people enjoy going through life with a pine-cone up their ass--bottle babies perhaps, or those whose toilet training was on the harsh side. You have a good time with that, sunshine. |
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In article , "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. From where I sit, it looks like the difference between the two of you is that he realizes that "not responding to someone trying to help you is pointlessly rude" -- and you either don't realize that, or don't care. |
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On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:24:42 -0800, "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. Yeah, like bitch about your trip to HD on Usenet. I go to the store to buy things to work with, and I don't need the distraction of dealing with overly aggresive "help". Maybe a T-shirt could get the message across without taxing you with the enormous task of saying 'No thanks'. [I use a grunt and shake my head when I'm tired.] Here's a nice F.O.A.D. T-shirt. http://www.printfection.com/shop/T-S...sideid.2845686 Jim |
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