I lived and shopped in this town for nine years before my now husband arrived. All of a sudden the clerks in the stores started talking to him. I would hand them my credit card with my name on it which is Elizabeth, not easy to confuse with a male, and they would try to hand him the slip to sign. He asks, "Isn't it a felony to sign a credit card slip that isn't mine?"
Now, we have a system wherein when we go to a store he does what he calls "whistling dixie." If a clerk or sales person tries to talk with him, he just walks away and starts whistling until I'm finished. One of the other things the clerks did was try to give him my change when I paid cash for something. I would ask, "Why is it that the money came out of my purse and you're giving him my change? As many times as I have seen him pay for things, not once have you ever tried to give me his change..." At 05:53 PM 11/16/2008, you wrote: >Friends of the order of the Nailing Apron, >You've probably had experiences similar to mine when I visited Menards >yesterday. We picked up supplies to upgrade the kitchen. With the new >furnace the chimney is no longer in use. By taking it out I can adde 24 >inches of upper and lower cabinets and countertop. Then we'll upgrade to >new lights, and llay new vinyl flooring. >So I needed some screws. It's hard for even my wife the find the ones I >want (3 inch, all purpose with a square drive). So I stood in the screw >aisle while she went to fetch a sales person. When he came up to me I asked >him for the xcrews I wanted, and he responded rather rudely, "You're looking >at them." >So I lifted up my white cane and said, "I'm sorry , sir, I can't see them." >Even then he didn't get it. Not until my wife said, "That's why he carries >a white cane." >Suddenly the young man became very nice and very helpfully pulled the >screws off the shelf and then located the ring shank nails I need for the >underlayment. "Anything else I can help you with?" >We went on without him, and did find another store employee who was very >helpful in helping us locate the underlayment, plywood and masonite we >needed. >Twice, on previous visits to Menards I have had sales clerks ask if I needed >to check my white cane. Perhaps it looks a bit like PVC. I told them I had >already paid for it. >What shopping stories do you have? >Blessings, >Tom > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
