I guess maybe I'm "odd man" out on this subject, but I try never to walk into a quilt shop or fabric store with an attitude. Maybe it's because I'm retired, but I tend not to be in a big rush all the time, which tends to make all of us a bit more tending toward being curt or short tempered with others. I've stood in lines in quilt stores and big box fabric stores and listened to other customers make rude remarks about the slowness of cutters, check out people, etc., when it was totally unnecessary and unfounded. I, like everyone else, have a tendency to get short tempered with people who don't seem to know their products, procedures, but then I try to remind myself that at least they are making an effort to earn a wage instead of depending on public assistance, etc., courtesy of taxpayers. And, we all have to stop and think about the possibility of what may or may not have gone on or happened in our lives before we walked into a quilt shop or fabric store that would tend to give us not the most pleasing of dispositions either. So, think about these things before you fire off a bad review/rant on an lqs or fabric store and its owner(s)/employees. Also, to the lady in NC who feels that tourists are treated far better than she is in her local lqs, how would any specific owner/employee be able to know if I am a tourist or a loca citizen if I were to walk into one of those shops? DH and I travel a lot and I have never expected any shop owner/employee to be able to discern if I am a local citizen or a tourist when I'm shopping. Sorry this is so long, but just my thoughts being posted.