What was that all about?
Jul. 2nd, 2005 05:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lectrix_lectiToday I went to buy a suitcase.
Sounds very mundane and uncomplicated, right? Think again.
The shop girl gently led me away from the not so robust steel-frame-and-textile thingies I was sceptically peering at and pointed me in the direction of a dull grey plastic suitcase. It was tremendously ugly. Still, it seemed resistant to Romanian airport handling and other misfortunes that might befall it, it had several nifty partitions and pockets, it was the right size and it wasn't particularly expensive.
My only problem with it was that as suitcase vs. luggage band goes, it was camouflaged. Grey. Come on. 9 of 10 travellers have grey plastic suitcases.
So while I was thinking it over, weighing ugliness and camouflage against otherwise perfectly suited to my needs, I noticed a suitcase of the exact same model - only lime green. It sounds revolting, I know, but I instantly fell in love with it. The price was exactly the same and all. Naturally I pointed at it and told the shop girl that I wanted that one.
Whaddya know, Shop Bimbo objected.
For some reason, the only explanation I can think of is that she gets some bonus for selling the grey suitcases, she was very much opposed to my buying the lime green one. She actually argued with me. Inexplicably, she insisted that the two suitcases were not alike at all, when anyone able to read the little booklet attached to the handle could tell that they were identical.
Then she actually pointed to the zip lock on the lime green one and stated that the grey one was much better because it had a real lock instead of a zip lock. This was a blatant lie, the grey one, being identical to the lime green one, had a fucking zip lock too!
This odd salesperson encounter lasted quite a while, 15-20 minutes perhaps. Finally I convinced her that there was no way in hell she was going to manage to sell me a grey suitcase I didn't want instead of a lime green one I very much wanted. She deigned to accept my money, ignored my trying to buy a new wallet AND a new shoulder bag as well and appeared to want to get rid of me as soon as humanly possible.
I'm unable to figure out what that was all about.
Sounds very mundane and uncomplicated, right? Think again.
The shop girl gently led me away from the not so robust steel-frame-and-textile thingies I was sceptically peering at and pointed me in the direction of a dull grey plastic suitcase. It was tremendously ugly. Still, it seemed resistant to Romanian airport handling and other misfortunes that might befall it, it had several nifty partitions and pockets, it was the right size and it wasn't particularly expensive.
My only problem with it was that as suitcase vs. luggage band goes, it was camouflaged. Grey. Come on. 9 of 10 travellers have grey plastic suitcases.
So while I was thinking it over, weighing ugliness and camouflage against otherwise perfectly suited to my needs, I noticed a suitcase of the exact same model - only lime green. It sounds revolting, I know, but I instantly fell in love with it. The price was exactly the same and all. Naturally I pointed at it and told the shop girl that I wanted that one.
Whaddya know, Shop Bimbo objected.
For some reason, the only explanation I can think of is that she gets some bonus for selling the grey suitcases, she was very much opposed to my buying the lime green one. She actually argued with me. Inexplicably, she insisted that the two suitcases were not alike at all, when anyone able to read the little booklet attached to the handle could tell that they were identical.
Then she actually pointed to the zip lock on the lime green one and stated that the grey one was much better because it had a real lock instead of a zip lock. This was a blatant lie, the grey one, being identical to the lime green one, had a fucking zip lock too!
This odd salesperson encounter lasted quite a while, 15-20 minutes perhaps. Finally I convinced her that there was no way in hell she was going to manage to sell me a grey suitcase I didn't want instead of a lime green one I very much wanted. She deigned to accept my money, ignored my trying to buy a new wallet AND a new shoulder bag as well and appeared to want to get rid of me as soon as humanly possible.
I'm unable to figure out what that was all about.
