A full weekend (and then some) of work amounts to a lot of ridiculousness.
Friday, a woman got snippy with me because I wouldn't tell her what piece of jewelry to buy for a 16-year-old's birthday--one she didn't even know. She told me it was "my job, isn't it?"
To pick out jewelry for strangers completely unknown to the stranger shopping in my store? No, can't say that's in the job description.
Saturday, I had to stay late because people started flagging me down in the infants section (it started as I was on my way to the timeclock to punch out) and kept asking for infant high chairs. Meanwhile, the other girl in the department was busy telling other employees a story about the crazy (seriously, though, he was freakin' nuts) guy who called the store looking for "1960's style, elastic-ankle swim trunks." WTH?
Today, I received a history/sociology/psychology/medical lesson from a man in shoes, all prompted by the fact that his 90-year-old mother liked a pair of shoes in the ad that she thought was a closed-toed dress shoe, but turned out to be an open-toed sandal. And also came in coral, not red. Oh, and we didn't carry it in a wide. And his point came down to this: Women are stupid because they think that shoes are meant to decorate, rather than protect (hence why we don't want an open-toed sandal). And, we're also subconsciously "rewarding" our feet for never changing size (once we reach maturity) by purchasing them more "decorations" than we deign to put on the rest of our bodies--which dare to fluctuate with age, diet, physical activity, and other biological factors.
Damn you, body, damn you, for not being like my feet. As punishment, you shall have to suffer in old, worn out, ill-fitting clothes while you jealously watch me buy pair after pair of new, shiny, perfectly-fitting shoes. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.
Apparently men just don't notice that shoe size, and therefore foot size, does change with significant amounts of weight loss or gain. Take that Man-Shoe-Philosopher
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