I have just been to Wilkinsons. I bought a pair of heel grips, a bath scrunchy and two packs of their own brand diarrhoea-curing tablets (you can never have too many of those when you about to go to 'foreign').
I am quite sure this massive purchase did not need the response it received from the cashier.
To whit:
Cashier (Big smile - lots of eye contact) : 'How are you today'
Me (no smile - avoid eye contact at all costs) : Fine
C: Just going to work/just left off work (studying my badge)
M: On lunch-hour
C: Are you having a good day
M: Yup
C: Busy?
M: complete and utter silence
C: Well, have a nice day anyway.....
I would like to apologise to the poor cashier who has obviously been trained to be as welcoming and interested and friendly as possible to the customers. If I met him socially and he was that interested in me I would probably want to have his babies; but I met him in a shop, in my lunch hour, when I wasnt even buying anything exciting.
May I suggest that Wilkinsons trains their staff to enquire:'Are you Grumpy'? Then we might get off on the right foot.
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They do a very good line of plasters at Wilkos ya know!
Just got back from the cradle of civilisation that is Crete. I managed 1 grumpy outpour over that 'ole chestnut...the sunbeds. I saw abundant grumpiness about the spreding of Nutella at the crepe making machine near the poolside one afternoon and smiled to myself. Wasn't I who started it for once!
"Did you have a nice Christmas?", "Yes, 1977".
They usually don't get that.
So far I have managed not to reply to the 4.7 billion people who have asked me to enter my pin with "Thank you for the reminder, I was intending to stand here and stare at the machine for the next 4 hours".
And as for those people who say 'you're welcome' if I say thank you...... grrrhh.
The folk that 'get my goat' are the ones who, after you go through a door you then hold it open for someone else who is coming through after you ... they just accept the fact that you hold it open for them arrrghhh ! I have taken to spouting out loudly 'You're welcome' !! They then look at you as though you have two heads or you are something they scraped off their shoes...
How would they like you to let the door slam into them ???
I usually reply 'dont thank me, oh, silly me, you didnt'... Went into Wilko today and the cashier made no eye contact and just demanded payment. I like her style, will deffo go to her till again!
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