Two Bigoted Cows

[MoonCat]

“That’s because this is the ghetto store.”

Maybe she mis-heard her. She probably really said "That's because I'm a ghetto whore".

I'll have to tell Owl that one!

[flutes_and_fabric]

As far as fitting room limits go, I don't try stuff on anyway. I just bring it back if it doesn't fit. 5 items is too many if you ask me. Too easy to steal that way.

Definitely too easy to steal. I caught a girl once slide a cardigan on under her tank. She was stupid though, I distinctly remember that her top showed way too much cleavage...then it didn't. Yeah, good job.

[LillFilly]

Poor employee; probably just wanted an excuse to fire her. Seems like almost anything can be taken the wrong way today. Heck, I've been accused of 'following' people because they're this/that/etc. Noooo...It's because I could have walked either to the right or the left, happened to chose the left, and just happened to be walking behind you!!!

Phew! Don't get me started on slang!

[Sheldonrs]

“That’s because this is the ghetto store.”

Maybe she mis-heard her. She probably really said "That's because I'm a ghetto whore".

[ShootMePlease]

I use the term "ghetto" all the time. I certainly don't mean it in a racist way. To me, it just means run down and shitty.

As far as fitting room limits go, I don't try stuff on anyway. I just bring it back if it doesn't fit. 5 items is too many if you ask me. Too easy to steal that way.

[Sapphire Silk]

Every fitting room I've ever been to had a posted limit for the number of things you could take in with you at one time. Whether it was enforced or not was variable. Still, if I have seven items and they say only three at a time, I say "Yes, Ma'am," put four things down in my cart and go inside with only three.

Now, if the limit is three but I have four or (maybe) five things, I'll ask if it's okay to take them in anyway. Here's the part SCs don't get: When one is polite to other people one can often get them to bend on little things like this. It's not that difficult.

They don't get it because TV has taught them that being confrontational is normal.

The very idea of being polite doesn't compute; they don't even know what the word means, and are puzzled when csr's don't cave they way they are "supposed" to.

[flutes_and_fabric]

hm, I've always thought as ghetto as a slur for something that's cheap or low quality. My grandparents were forced to live in a ghetto, so I thought they would find that expression offensive, but when I asked my grandmother she said that that's how she uses the term as well, but even so it's still a very rude thing to say. That being said, there're two moles by me. One is surrounded by projects. I've been in there because it's across the street from my dad's work, and it's not a very nice place to be. The other is in a more suburban area and is vastly nicer that the previous store, but still not all that great. I'll have to check out the store near my aunt and uncle one day, because they say it's great.

[MoonCat]

Here's the part SCs don't get: When one is polite to other people one can often get them to bend on little things like this. It's not that difficult.

So right! Owl is willing to cut them some slack if they ask politely. I think it's pretty sucky that so many people actually expect to break the rules wherever they go.

[Skeen]

I used to work at a Moles many years ago (lasted about 3 months - last straw was them telling me I couldn't have my own HS graduation off even though I asked several weeks in advance) and I don't remember there being a limit in the fitting rooms, but it's so standard a practice I don't see why it would be a surprise at ANY clothing store.

[EvilEmpryss]

Every fitting room I've ever been to had a posted limit for the number of things you could take in with you at one time. Whether it was enforced or not was variable. Still, if I have seven items and they say only three at a time, I say "Yes, Ma'am," put four things down in my cart and go inside with only three.

Now, if the limit is three but I have four or (maybe) five things, I'll ask if it's okay to take them in anyway. Here's the part SCs don't get: When one is polite to other people one can often get them to bend on little things like this. It's not that difficult.

[MoonCat]

In re: to the term, I've only ever seen it used in the same sense as the dictionary definition.

As for the fitting room limit, that's how my sister was trained when she was hired there, but we all know how rules tend to go down the crapper. She doesn't want to be the one who gets in trouble for not following them, so she always informs customers (plus there are signs all over the place), and offers to hold items at her station while they try on the first five. They usually make a big fuss anyway.

I don't enjoy shopping anymore either, so I usually take no more than 3 things in at once, no matter where I'm shopping. After two trips in and out, I'm done.

[protege]

When I saw the title to this thread, I got a picture of two cows in a field, one with a mullet and one with a Confederate flag painted on its side.

You forgot that one of the cows is up on blocks, and that the other...has been creatively "repaired" with duct tape

[Geisman]

When I saw the title to this thread, I got a picture of two cows in a field, one with a mullet and one with a Confederate flag painted on its side.

[MadMike]

Sometimes, this whole "politically correct" thinking goes just too far the other way.

Possibly. But that's a discussion for Fratching, not here.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Sometimes, this whole "politically correct" thinking goes just too far the other way. Whoever thought "reverse racism" was not racism?

May I suggest y'all redirect this converation..?

I have 3 "Moles" within 20 minutes of me and I don't think any of them enforce a limit on how many items you can bring into the fitting room. But if I'm some place that does, and I am over the limit, I just ask them to hold a few things, try on the rest, then go back out and trade a few. Not that big a deal. Then again, I'm not the type to bring massive armloads of clothes to try on at once (I hate shopping to begin with).