- Original Message -
From: Ruth Anne Baumgartner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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My father was always delighted to talk to anybody. As a teenager I
found it excruciatingly un-cool when he got into conversations with
gas-station attendants, toll collectors, waiters and waitresses, janitors,
- Original Message -
From: Sylvia Rognstad [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2006 12:16 AM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] When the fabric shop employee asks So what are
youmaking with ...
As a part-time employee of Jo-anns, I know they tell
I see no reason for the customer to act rudely
to
me when I ask but sometimes they do anyhow. Curt, sarcastic comebacks
are
not called for in my opinion.Why do salespeople have to be treated
as
if they are just cogs in the corporate machine (even though I feel that
way often)?
And I have
found that the people who are most friendly and forthcoming when I ask
What are you making? are not the historical costumers. They usually
just shut up, like I am probably beneath them and haven't a clue what
they are doing.
Actually, it's that they don't know how to translate
Most sewers hoard fabric, whether they costume or not. With me I think
it's the quantity that makes clerks curious--I try never to buy less
than 10 yards just to make sure I'll have enough for whatever I make
with it when the time comes. I found out long ago that when I really
want a certain
In a message dated 6/9/2006 1:33:27 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
With me I think
it's the quantity that makes clerks curious--I try never to buy less
than 10 yards just to make sure I'll have enough for whatever I make
with it when the time comes.
