Strange Starbucks Conversation

[Irving]

I have spent a few decades perfecting this approach. The chatty ones get a pre-emptive stare just to push them off-center. Once you attain a sufficient level of angry codger, people see blue static ripple off you and start looking for a reason to not have to be near you. It is at that point that you find a life of peaceful nirvana where crowds part like the red sea and you are able to exist in a world without inane simpletons imparting their stupidity into your sphere of contentment.

You guys must have a different look than I do. If I'm wearing a collared shirt, of any color, in any store, I get asked which aisle things are located or if something is in stock. EVEN when I'm already asking an employee something. It's crazy.

[DireWolf]

I try to walk around looking grumpy all of the time makes me look less approachable so I don't have to deal with this kind of stuff.

^^^This approach has worked for me for years, and has been pretty effective for the most part in all kinds of settings...also helps that it's my natural look (angry) when I'm concentrating/contemplating....


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[brutal]

You guys must have a different look than I do. If I'm wearing a collared shirt, of any color, in any store, I get asked which aisle things are located or if something is in stock. EVEN when I'm already asking an employee something. It's crazy.

I like to pretend I'm an employee and offer unsolicited advice.

[KS63]

I like to pretend I'm an employee and offer unsolicited advice.

Ask for passwords and SSN.

[Rucker61]

I like to pretend I'm an employee and offer unsolicited advice.

"I'm not a doctor, but I'll take a look at it".

[Great-Kazoo]

She wanted your body, Johnny.

New screen name. Johnnyslong

[buffalobo]

I try to walk around looking grumpy all of the time makes me look less approachable so I don't have to deal with this kind of stuff.

^^^This approach has worked for me for years, and has been pretty effective for the most part in all kinds of settings...also helps that it's my natural look (angry) when I'm concentrating/contemplating....


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D) All the above

[Ah Pook]

Originally Posted by ray1970
I try to walk around looking grumpy all of the time makes me look less approachable so I don't have to deal with this kind of stuff.

I have spent a few decades perfecting this approach. The chatty ones get a pre-emptive stare just to push them off-center. Once you attain a sufficient level of angry codger, people see blue static ripple off you and start looking for a reason to not have to be near you. It is at that point that you find a life of peaceful nirvana where crowds part like the red sea and you are able to exist in a world without inane simpletons imparting their stupidity into your sphere of contentment.

Been working with the public most of my life. I dig farking with your type the best.

At least she called by it's proper name.

[jhood001]

There with what I can only assume was her husband, silently praying for the sweet embrace of death.

I won't exaggerate and claim that I coughed up the beer that I was drinking all over my keyboard; but it was close.


Your kind (and all of our kind), while hated, are a bit of curiosity for those extreme liberals that have never actually met one of us. They have been told that we are a problem for our society; without being told exactly why we're a problem or why what we stand for is a problem.

She was probing. Probing occurs when new knowledge is desired or when reinforcement of existing knowledge is desired.

Despite her self-righteousness, brazenness and ignorance, she was engaging you.

Some around here might tell you to mouth off at her, ignore her, or fire off a funny one-liner at her.

But you have to realize that that woman is clay. Soft. Formless. No opinions of her own. Regurgitating what she has been told.

Buy her the stupid coffee she ordered (and her man-servant) and give her your name and number and invite her to come shooting with you some time. Do it while putting up a friendly smile and asking questions about their lives and what they're up to 'today'.

She may or may not take you up on the offer (and you may not even want to deliver on it), but she will second guess her thoughts every time someone else tells her that YOU are what is wrong with everything in her world.

It works. I've done it. Try it.

[XC700116]

I won't exaggerate and claim that I coughed up the beer that I was drinking all over my keyboard; but it was close.


Your kind (and all of our kind), while hated, are a bit of curiosity for those extreme liberals that have never actually met one of us. They have been told that we are a problem for our society; without being told exactly why we're a problem or why what we stand for is a problem.

She was probing. Probing occurs when new knowledge is desired or when reinforcement of existing knowledge is desired.

Despite her self-righteousness, brazenness and ignorance, she was engaging you.

Some around here might tell you to mouth off at her, ignore her, or fire off a funny one-liner at her.

But you have to realize that that woman is clay. Soft. Formless. No opinions of her own. Regurgitating what she has been told.

Buy her the stupid coffee she ordered (and her man-servant) and give her your name and number and invite her to come shooting with you some time. Do it while putting up a friendly smile and asking questions about their lives and what they're up to 'today'.

She may or may not take you up on the offer (and you may not even want to deliver on it), but she will second guess her thoughts every time someone else tells her that YOU are what is wrong with everything in her world.

It works. I've done it. Try it.

You have way more patience and understanding for stupid, and obviously outspokenly stupid people that I do. Bravo sir, My give a shit for those types got broken a LONG time ago.