Patience

[catinthedark]

Originally Posted by estranged4life

if ya want to refer to Canadians (Those pesky Canucks up North), please use the following smilie:

tee hee. i approve.

okay - i thought of a sitch in which i have NOOOOO patience. if i'm in a store, and someone asks if they can help me... no. wait. i think i need to write out an example of the exchange i had recently to make my point:

scene: a downtown toronto department store. me, walking into the decleor skin care section of the make up department.

decleor (ie. specially trained in the line) salesgirl: can i help you find something?

me: i need some of my moisturizer... (me looking at the shelf it's usually on). do you have the mattifying one?

salesgirl: we do.. but we also have a new version of it - this is the new one.

me: (looking at it, looking at the old one, trying to read the ingredients to see what the difference is): what's the difference between the two?

salesgirl: well, it's a new package and it's not called mattifying. i think it smells different.

me: so you don't actually know.

salesgirl: yes, it's a different formula.

me: but you clearly don't know what the difference is.

salesgirl: it's a different formula.

me: i gathered that. but do you know what makes it different?

salesgirl: it's a different package...

me: right. thanks anyway.

i actually left without buying it. that kind of incompetence drives me insane!! i will leave a store without buying what i went in for if the sales help is incompetent. my other HUGE pet peeve is when i'm looking for a size, and a salesgirl comes along and says, can i help you find a size? uh, no thanks. i can tell the difference fine between s, m, and l's, and i'm just as capable as you of looking through this pile of sweaters.

oh - and another time, i asked a salesclerk if he had an XS in white in a top i wanted in the backstore. he looked at me like i was from another planet. then he started looking through the pile i had just looked through. i said, uh, i already looked here - no extra-small. that's why i asked if you have it in the back. then he said, no but we have it in lots of other colours here in small. i walked out.