Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> wrote in
news:slrnfmu4tu.tev.sjsobol@amethyst.justthe.net:

> Funny, I thought that department stores of all types were losing
> business because people don't want to pay a premium for the privilege
> of shopping alone and having only one person on each floor of the
> building. ;p
>
>

One person followed by 4 rent-a-cops to make sure you don't steal
anything....

I have a customer who is a bigshot jeweler. She called me to get me to
come over and fix the remote control to her grand piano's Pianodisc
player. (corroded battery terminals from the Family Dollar zinc cells)

I figured, very wrongly, there would be noone in the store in a Tuesday
at 10PM, even near Xmas. The place was packed. They were spending like
Rap singers in limos. One lady was looking at diamond bracelets that
cost more than a 4BR house! 8 salespeople were running around like
crazy.

I went back in the office to her desk to pull the remote apart and have a
look. "Here, just move this out of your way.", she said sweeping the
20s, 50s and hundreds aside she hadn't had time to stack, yet. "We're a
little busy this morning.", she said, smiling at me. Two jewelers were
working on a stack of South Africa's finest diamonds on the desks behind
me, their loupes glued to their eyes.

It made me nervous to just be in there....(c; I fixed the control, she
paid me from the stacks on the desk and I got the hell out of there
before the hoodlums with guns arrived. Two off-duty cops in uniform are
hired to guard the place...with their 9mm automatics.



Larry
--
I found what I wanted for Christmas at Best Buy,
but she wouldn't stop screaming obscenities while
we were scanning her and forcing her into the bag!

How was I s'posed ta know associate girls weren't
on sale?