Originally Posted by janRN
I stopped in my LQ last week and was greeted when I entered. I declined the offered help and went to look at fabric, thanking him and telling him I'd let him know when I needed fabric cut. I was the only one in the store and he was the only employee. Just as I was walking to the cutting table, a gentleman came in and said he wanted to purchase a sewing machine for his wife. My 3 bolts of fabric and I were suddenly invisible!! The employee actually turned his back to me and ushered the man to the wall of machines and started his sales pitch. I felt he should have shown the man where to start looking, cut my fabric, and then returned to him. I laid the fabric ON THE FLOOR and left--employee still never turned around.
Having worked in a fabric store, sometimes customers would play the "power trip", too. They' d wander around carrying bolts of fabric, declining any help, mixing, matching -all perfectly fine. But just they second you'd turn to help someone else, they'd act like "OK now!" and expect you to drop everything and go back to them, when all the signals they were sending was that they had plenty of time. Admittedly, the clerk should have asked the gentleman if he minded if your fabric could be cut first, but I expect he was making a judgement call, timewise , seeing that you had already refused help, and might still be matching fabric. Sometimes the machine shoppers only take a few minutes and move on.