Safeway update
2003-06-05 08:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdlbearCalled their customer support number and griped. Apparently it's not store policy to ask for the customer's last name if it's not on the receipt; the clerk was "going the extra mile to make the customer feel welcome", as the rep put it. I didn't feel welcome, I felt angry and threatened.
There have been two occasions on which some sales droid has "greeted" me as I walked into a store and I've simply turned around and walked out.
Am I that far away from the norm? OK, I can't stand the Mac user interface, especially click-to-focus and where they put the menu bar. I don't like to use the phone. I don't like scented magazines, tissue paper, butt wipes, and so on. I don't like hearing perfect strangers mangle the pronunciation of my last name -- it's bad enough hearing them mangle the name of the street I live on (Leigh Avenue, pronounced "lee"). I have no interest in sports. I can't stand "humor" that involves putting people in embarassing situations.
Am I really as unique as I appear to be? Am I that much of an outsider? Sometimes I wonder whether I'm human.
There have been two occasions on which some sales droid has "greeted" me as I walked into a store and I've simply turned around and walked out.
Am I that far away from the norm? OK, I can't stand the Mac user interface, especially click-to-focus and where they put the menu bar. I don't like to use the phone. I don't like scented magazines, tissue paper, butt wipes, and so on. I don't like hearing perfect strangers mangle the pronunciation of my last name -- it's bad enough hearing them mangle the name of the street I live on (Leigh Avenue, pronounced "lee"). I have no interest in sports. I can't stand "humor" that involves putting people in embarassing situations.
Am I really as unique as I appear to be? Am I that much of an outsider? Sometimes I wonder whether I'm human.
