Hi there
You know by now that I adore it when shop assistants go into raptures about something I'm wearing. They learn to do it in shop assistant school, I'm sure of it. Find something to admire on a customer and you could make a sale -
Remember my favourite? It was the street hustler trying to sell me a raffle ticket : "I like your ..." There was a long pause while he frantically looked me over. "I like your ... TAN!" he shouted triumphantly.
I'm not ashamed in the least that shop assistants and street hustlers take quite a while to find something about me that they like. The whole experience for me is fun.
Last week I had two cute occasions. One young shop assistant in a boutique came up to me -
"I like your watch strap," she said. "It's red."
Like, I didn't know that...
The next day, a street hustler called out at me from way over the other side of the pavement. He was selling raffle tickets. "I like your pendant", he shouted.
My pendant was of a tiny silver cow jumping over a crescent moon.
I hid it with my hand. "What's on my pendant?" I asked.
He didn't have a clue....
