Sigh.


Monday tomorrow, innit?

As far as brick & mortar shopping goes, I keep mine to a bare minimum any more. Long gone are the days I enjoyed wandering Mall corridors for hours, blissfully looking through the shelves of favorite stores. Working retail cured me of that.

I know better than to fall for the sales pitches from floor personnel, yet feel bad doing so, knowing most of them dislike delivering their spiel at least as much I dislike hearing it. Too, each time I refuse to buy the extras they try to pawn off on me, it increases the chance they don't meet company goals and will have their hours reduced or be terminated, at best receive a good chewing out. (I don't think anyone badgers me at Barnes & Noble. They ask if I needed assistance, which is fine and good, and if I say no leave it at that. Nor do they badger me when I say no to their store card at checkout. Would all stores were like that.)

Thankfully, few retail chains are as pushy as we were forced to be.

I admit that when I go to a book store I still look around a bit. (We have only one left in town now, a Barnes & Noble in the Mall. Time was we had two huge stand-alone book stores, the Barnes & Noble, and two used book stores.) Best Buy too, though they don't carry as much stuff I'm interested in as they used to. Other than those, it's in and out.

(Did any quality classic music recording stores still exist, I'd definitely do a lot of browsing there, despite not having the hearing to justify purchases there. As it is, those store are all but extinct, and confined to the very largest cities.)

I too won't shop Black Friday, though I worked my share of them back in the day.

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Nov 19 2017, 09:46 PM

Didn't know you had been in retail, Decrepit. I always thought you were just in the military, or maybe I'm confusing you with Acadian

Both. I worked for some years in retail sales after my military career ended.

Stupid circle


What kind of stuff did you sell?

Will the circle be unbroken ?

In some way but not yet.

Actually Will the Circle be Unbroken is an old gospel song. I was making a funny .

Awww, and I did not see when you funny

That's my humor for ya, making quotes out of pop couture and other forms of media .

Well, my humor is quite similar; making references to things no one else knows about so I feel ya

Khajiit doesn’t get it.

Khajiit wants kitten candy?

Khajiit really doesn’t get it

What about kitten mittens?

One-sizefitzall!

Khajiit loves that clip!

I hate it when a cat claws my furniture/Impala and eats it. Who do I send the money to .