Old 10-29-2009, 01:15 PM
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Fox
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I Love It!! That's the best I've ever heard.

I've worked in fabric stores, and some customers make you wonder why they ever came in. Once, on a huge sale day (Oh why do they always come in on a sale day!) a woman came in looking out of place. She looked confused, worried by all the shoppers pulling bolts off shelves, stuffing them quickly into carts and moving to the next grouping of fabrics. While helping another customer I quickly asked if I could help her find something.

"White. I need white."

" White," I said. "Do you want satin, polyester, cotton..."

"White. I need white."

Again, I aswered with different names while my customer looked on giving her own suggestions, then gave me a dismissing nod meaning "Your guess is as good as mine." I nodded back and started a fabric tour with my new customer.

"White. I need white."

After a few minutes of this, she was more frustrated, and I wasn't far behind her! That was the only thing she would say. I finally turned her over to another clerk, who had the patience of a SAINT, who could ask the correct questions to define her problem. She needed "WHITE" for a replacement collar on a shirt, something she couldn't tell me apparently. She was one of the many that didn't know what they want, or how to accomplish the task...the type that will finally ask if we could do the job for them..then be insenced that we would suggest a dressmaker. Which would always be followed by the threat of calling the head office to complain that we were being rude.

I always wanted to put a sign on the door: "Non Sewers need not enter!"
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