Too Dressed Up For The Dollar Store

[TruthHurts]

I was shopping with a friend and she wanted to check out the dollar store for a moment. I was perusing the aisles when some women came up to me.

C: Excuse me, could you look for something in the back for me?

Me: No I am sorry I don't work here.

C: Oh but you look so nice. You're too dressed up for the dollar store.

Me: Well thanks

C: Why do you dress up to go to the dollar store?

The last thing I wanted to do was get into a discussion with this woman. I politely excused myself from the lady and rejoined my friend. She was acting like I showed up in a glittery ball gown instead of a button up shirt and slacks.

[taurinejunkie]

I think you've found Debra Jackson!

[bhskittykatt]

LOL.

Seriously, maybe some of us like to dress nice when we go out? Granted, I'm really not one of them most of the time. But when we had a dollar store near the theatre, we'd often peruse there before the show, and I would be dressed a bit nicer for the dinner/movie date.

[Slayer]

lmao @ Debra Jackson & above lady.

That's just so random (though apparently not as random as I would think).

[MoonCat]

a button up shirt and slacks.

Well, it beats pink camo pants!

[raudf]

*looks at her local Walmart* If that's what people call dressed up... I think I'm way overdressed in my t-shirt and jeans.

Huh, the employees at my local dollar store are usually in t-shirts and jeans too. Again, that might be considered "dressed up," in my neck of the woods.

[PepperElf]

Seriously, maybe some of us like to dress nice when we go out?

This. Not everyone dresses like a slob. And sometimes the dollar store isn't the only stop.

[b2addm]

I work at a dollar store. If you're completely dressed, you're overdressed. Too many of our customers wear their pajamas and think that's just fine.

[MadMike]

That's why I don't like to do any shopping on my way home from work or during my lunch break, when I'm dressed up. People think I work there. It doesn't seem to happen nearly as much as it used to. I guess somewhere along the line, I stopped giving off the retail vibe, and started giving off the "speak to me and die" vibe.

[Nonstop_Death]

Perhaps the woman in the opening post felt bad about how she was dressed? And instead of rectifying the problem, she instead blamed it on someone else?

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I went out to Wally World tonight in a sweatshirt, jeans with a big rip in the knee, and flip flops. And I still felt like I was there in a tuxedo or something.

My local Wally World is special. >_>

[Food Lady]

I sometimes shop in PJs. Well, sweats, really. Definitely dressed down. But if I've just come from a walk and have to stop on the way home, well that's life.

[cashierbex]

I went into my store and my roomies all in one night in Batman PJs cause I was too lazy to get into shorts. I got made fun of by coworkers and one of the managers. But that night, I somehow look too dressed up compared to the customers.

[blas]

I'm known to forget stuff and have to go back to Wal-Mart on a Friday afternoon after payday, or on a Sunday evening on my way back home, and on Sunday, I would definetly call myself dressed up.

But yet, even when I go to Wal-Mart in my work smock (which is a man's size and a large tent on me), after working 12 hours and my makeup and hair being a mess, I still think I look more appropriate out in public than most people there.

I go there in my gym clothes sometimes. I am known to run a lot of errands in my gym clothes, and though I'm not one of those people who puts a lot of money into fancy work clothes, I have a few pairs of nice black stretch flairs and some cute strappy tanktops. Still looks pretty fancy compared to everyone in their holey grey sweatpants and oversized Tweety/Grumpy shirts.