Saturday, June 04, 2005

here's a topic i'm sure you would have experienced at some time or another. and no, i don't mean accompanying friends home from singapore expo(read previous)... but

PESKY SALESPERSONS

yEEeess. annoying irritants that decend on you once you're, like 1 step into the shop. in some cases, calling out to you as you walk past. you step in and they go "welcome!" then you just nod and they usually walk away or continue idling. but apparently in a lil' shop down at Annex, they do just the opposite of that. when we stepped in, they were on us.

"WELCOME!" a chorus by oh, 4 people.

linus: *nods*

me: *smiles*

alwyn: *sianz*

and linus proceeds to the rack at the enterance of the store while i check out the long sleeved shirts at the side and alwyn follows.

salesgirl: "what are you looking for?"

me: "shirts."

silence as i pass the shirts because they're a bit too gaudy.

salesgirl: "the shirts are over HERE."

me: "..."

and so i went to look at the shorts... and joined alwyn. OMG. so annoying! then i saw this not bad looking pair of shorts. and was searching for the price tag when this another salesguy comes and asks

salesguy: "looking for price tag ah BROTHER?"

me: "yeah."

salesguy: "here all the pants are SDG $49.90 BROTHER."

me: "okay."

and the famous line

salesguy: "LOOKING FOR SOMETHING?"

me: "no."

then a moment of silence as i see linus standing there... silent signal to clear out of the shop. i was sure alwyn had enough too. then suddenly the salesguy said something like

salesguy: "you guys not buying anything...?"

WRONG WRONG! *buzzer sound*

mistake of the extremely bad salesperson: never never EVER ask if the customer is buying anything. that would only piss people off. like me. don't they have any logic? and please, i will buy something only if i fucking like it. safe to say, i won't be going back there for quite a while. or maybe not ever. we'll see.

ps: linus also blogged about this check his version out here.

Posted by melvin at 10:28 PM