Safeway update

[mdlbear]

Called 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.

Comments

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Methinks you want that fourth wall to be around you everywhere.

Greeter has to be THE shit job. I keep this in mind when I have to deal with one. I give them the ol' Disney treatment and totally outdo any Mary Sunshine they have to hand out. They're the ones who get embarassed, lemme tellya.

Macs bend my brain backward. They're Macs. *shrug*

Scented perfume samples in magazines are just wrong and should be outlawed.

You ought to have my last name. You should see my mail, let alone have people pronounce it.

You can't be invisible - so if that's out of the question, take it to the opposite extreme.

Life's a banquet - why are all those poor fools out there starving to death?