Wednesday, February 07, 2007

The one with the "Like"

More effort must be made to lie to people about my employ - they must be told that I spend my day arranging corporate travel - something about buying clothes makes people want to tell me about their cysts and/or precancerous lesions when I tell them I'm in cancer care.

To her credit though, she was a very good sales person, and could really pick the stuff I was more likely to wear, when I'd been through the shop and decided nothing suited. A number of things need mentioning here:


  • Change Rooms - I understand that curtains are cool, personally I prefer a good door, but I will change quickly behind a curtain. Change rooms however should perhaps not be visible by those people on the stairs, or through the crack in the curtain to the changeroom they are using as a store room, with someone working in. On a side note, even if you're not intending to try on clothes, for goodness sake wear underwear you don't mind being seen in!

  • Don't like pretend everything I say is like the funniest thing you've ever heard. - As I said before, the sales girl was very good, found a lot of clothes that took my fancy. One of her colleagues also took my fancy, her *other* colleague was taken by me. When I went back to pick up my freshly altered trousers he was overenthused to hear about my lunch, and used the word "like" frequently. Now, the use of "like" doesn't bother me that much and normally I would not have noticed.... had I not just read an article detailing how it came into daily usage. And for the record, if you don't know what a BLT is - it isn't likely you're someone I want to get to know.

  • Life is funny, I think had BLT-unaware not been around - his colleague and I would have had a lot more interaction

  • I have two jeans, one dressy jean, one functional jean. Turns out I'm seriously under-jeaned. One sales staff couldn't get by without his 15 jeans, the girl has over 30 and can't imagine life with any less. We can add that to the list of things I'm "Undered"