Retail Therapy

Retail Therapy Report

Dear Customers,
In this stressful holiday time, it's still important to be courteous to those around you. Simply because a person is behind a counter, does not give you right to be rude. The following is a quick list of holiday shopping "don'ts".

Don't spend the entire transaction on your cell phone arguing with your spouse or ordering food. You hold up the line trying to multi-task, and make me feel like I might as well be a goddamn U-Scan machine.

Don't complain to me that you were waving at me from twenty feet away, and I didn't hop over like your obedient lackey. I am not your lackey, nor am I anyone else's.

Don't correct me when say "happy holidays", by saying "merry christmas", Guess what, there are other religions celebrating holidays right now to.

Don't pester me about whether I scanned your giant piles of coupons, you were right there when I did it.

Don't get snippy with me when your young child hands me a copy of Call of Duty 4, and I insist you come into the electronics department to pay for it. Then, get flustered when I point out the M rating. It may be a gift for his older brother, but sure as shit he'll find a way to play it.

Don't stand there dumbly staring at me after I've handed you your receipt and purchase. You've got your stuff, our relationship is now concluded. You may go now. This almost only happens with credit card holders, does the holiday season make credit card users stupid?

Don't argue with me as to why my store doesn't stock the game/movie/CD you desire. I don't have it, it's not here, please stop pestering me about it.

Don't come to my register with 2,000 dollars worth of merchandise and then write a check. Also, don't get snippy when I have to call to verify funds. Why doesn't everyone have a debit card?

Don't argue with me when I say your card/check has been declined. You can tell me over and over how you've just made a large deposit, it isn't going to help. Call your bank and leave me out of it.

Don't ask me if there are any Wiis, just don't.

Do have a happy holiday, whatever heathen gods you worship.