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Re: penny for your thoughts

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Posted by Derf on August 18, 1999 at 20:26:11:

In Reply to: Re: penny for your thoughts posted by Hal on August 18, 1999 at 13:44:48:

: : What thoughts would cross your mind in the following situations? What would you do or say? Are you uncomfortable? If so, why? Assume you are not rushed:

: : 1. You stop by a book store to order a book a friend recommended for your newphew's birthday. The store is almost empty. You approach the clerk at the counter. He is about 20, fair-skinned, wearing glasses, and roughly 20 pounds overwieght. He is wearing a bright tie-dye shirt, pink paint in his hair, and necklace with the kind of stick cross seen in the ads for The Blair Witch Project. He looks up the book on the computer and takes down your name and address for notification. He keeps his eyes and voice low.

: Am I the only one here who would wonder what this person was like, and why someone in a sales job wouldn't be more friendly?

Nope.... Though it would depend on my mood, I'm usually exactly like that. Note that I preferred to assume that Corey's "ratboy" was not unfriendly so much as merely disengaged. "Disengaged" and "unfriendly" do rest on a single continuum, but the way I see it, the former is excusable.

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: : : What thoughts would cross your mind in the following situations? What would you do or say? Are you uncomfortable? If so, why? Assume you are not rushed: : : : 1. You stop by a book store to order a book a friend recommended for your newphew's birthday. The store is almost empty. You approach the clerk at the counter. He is about 20, fair-skinned, wearing glasses, and roughly 20 pounds overwieght. He is wearing a bright tie-dye shirt, pink paint in his hair, and necklace with the kind of stick cross seen in the ads for The Blair Witch Project. He looks up the book on the computer and takes down your name and address for notification. He keeps his eyes and voice low. : : Am I the only one here who would wonder what this person was like, and why someone in a sales job wouldn't be more friendly? : Nope.... Though it would depend on my mood, I'm usually exactly like that. Note that I preferred to assume that Corey's "ratboy" was not unfriendly so much as merely disengaged. "Disengaged" and "unfriendly" do rest on a single continuum, but the way I see it, the former is excusable.

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