I'll admit that I quite like getting dressed up for shopping, if only because it usually means you'll be running into a lot of people, namely the other shoppers, who will notice and maybe appreciate an outfit (academics Do Not Care for the most part, so it makes a nice change), but you always want to wear comfortable shoes. I don't know why shop assistants, who I think are endemic across the world in various pockets, think it's a useful thing to do - especially when there's no one else to help. I mean, when I was working at LUSH one of my colleague's housemates worked in Harrod's (probably London's poshest department store), where apparently work could be quite miserable, because the assistants would spend all day trying to sell things to people who didn't want them, and then someone would come in entirely randomly and by everything from Ralph Lauren's new season or something. Getting the commission from those random (and not even really assisted sales) was what everyone wanted, but it was frustratingly impossible to tell when it would happen. So I can sort of see the assistants always being on the look out for such a potential randomer walking in, but ignoring everyone else in the meantime seems like such a daft idea. I'm glad you got your boots!!
The beer's not something I really want to get into the habit of, but it was very nice. :D It was a great marker of 'I am on holiday and this is the weekend', so I wouldn't mind maintaining that sense of specialness...
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Date: 21/08/2011 06:34 (UTC)The beer's not something I really want to get into the habit of, but it was very nice. :D It was a great marker of 'I am on holiday and this is the weekend', so I wouldn't mind maintaining that sense of specialness...