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I'm sure they are now talking about how sucky I am.
Many of you are familiar with my hatred of playing twenty questions just to buy something. In short, I dont' give out personal info, such as my phone number, at cash registers. I am not sucky about it, but I will politely decline. Sometimes I ask what they want with it.
Babies R Us is one of the worst. Everytime I go in there, I make a game of asking what it will be used for. I have asked about 5 different occasions. I have about 5 different answers.
You know, they could just be honest and come out and say they are going to sell it to a Direct Marketing list. I mean, they still won't get it, but at least I'd respect their honesty.
So last night, I'm ringing out, and there were two young girls there...one doing the cashiering and one kind of hanging out. (the store wasn't particularly busy.)
Cashier 1: Phone number starting with area code, please.
Me: And what will that be used for?
Cashier (looking suprised. They always do when I ask that.) Um...I am not sure. (looks to cashier 2, the one hanging out, for support.)
Cashier 2: Its so they can send out coupons.
Me:
Coupons?
C2: Yes.
Me: They are sending coupons through the MAIL using my phone number?
C2: Yes.
Me:
(at this point, I just give her a disgusted look.
C2: They do.
Me: (dismissing her and loading my stuffon the belt.) Please.
I didn't give them my number and they at least had enough brains to not ask for it again.
What is it about 17 year olds (no offense to any 17 year olds on here) who think that people become stupider as they age? If a person reaches the height of their intellectual superiority at 17, then why should they become stupider as the years roll past? Ptah. Wow, how did I ever reach my forties without ever knowing that I could jot a phone number down on an envelope, drop it into the mail, and have it get where it needs to go? I bet I've been wasting money on stamps, too. Probably Hello Kitty stickers would work just as well.
Well, it's just as well, I was home all day alone, so I hadn't gotten my Recommended Daily Allowance of Smartass Kid. So good thing I ran into one.
I am sure Babies R Us has an entire department full of people who do nothing else all day except cross-reference phone numbers on the internet so they can get the mailing addresses they REALLY want but are too shy to ask for. Then they shred the phone numbers to keep them out of Direct Marketing hands.
Babies R Us is one of the worst. Everytime I go in there, I make a game of asking what it will be used for. I have asked about 5 different occasions. I have about 5 different answers.
You know, they could just be honest and come out and say they are going to sell it to a Direct Marketing list. I mean, they still won't get it, but at least I'd respect their honesty.
So last night, I'm ringing out, and there were two young girls there...one doing the cashiering and one kind of hanging out. (the store wasn't particularly busy.)
Cashier 1: Phone number starting with area code, please.
Me: And what will that be used for?
Cashier (looking suprised. They always do when I ask that.) Um...I am not sure. (looks to cashier 2, the one hanging out, for support.)
Cashier 2: Its so they can send out coupons.
Me:
Coupons?C2: Yes.
Me: They are sending coupons through the MAIL using my phone number?
C2: Yes.
Me:
(at this point, I just give her a disgusted look. C2: They do.
Me: (dismissing her and loading my stuffon the belt.) Please.
I didn't give them my number and they at least had enough brains to not ask for it again.
What is it about 17 year olds (no offense to any 17 year olds on here) who think that people become stupider as they age? If a person reaches the height of their intellectual superiority at 17, then why should they become stupider as the years roll past? Ptah. Wow, how did I ever reach my forties without ever knowing that I could jot a phone number down on an envelope, drop it into the mail, and have it get where it needs to go? I bet I've been wasting money on stamps, too. Probably Hello Kitty stickers would work just as well.
Well, it's just as well, I was home all day alone, so I hadn't gotten my Recommended Daily Allowance of Smartass Kid. So good thing I ran into one.
I am sure Babies R Us has an entire department full of people who do nothing else all day except cross-reference phone numbers on the internet so they can get the mailing addresses they REALLY want but are too shy to ask for. Then they shred the phone numbers to keep them out of Direct Marketing hands.
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