Shop Assistants and Their Games
Shop assistants should change the tired script.
The shop assistant assisting you, is probably a good person, but she has been corrupted by the It looks great on you script. She wants to be honest and tell you that the top is a disaster because of your height, weight and the bad hair colour experiment, but she can’t.
“Oh! That looks good
on you.”
The top you just tried on in the fitting room has sunflowers. They are big flowers and that adds another two
pounds on your body. The yellow exposes
the do-it-yourself on your head, regretting why you didn’t stick to the
tried and tested natural colour of your hair.
The top has purple buttons, which shows that designers also have bad
days.The shop assistant assisting you, is probably a good person, but she has been corrupted by the It looks great on you script. She wants to be honest and tell you that the top is a disaster because of your height, weight and the bad hair colour experiment, but she can’t.
Her mother boasts that her daughter is a shop
assistant. Her boss calls her a sales
representative, the new retail-speak. Her
job is to sell as many clothes as possible otherwise the store will go bankrupt
and she’ll be out there panhandling. The boss is
always reminding them of the competition: online shopping.
I checked out a new outlet shopping mall in July and the
sales representative told me.
“I like your bag. I got one for my sister in burgundy.”
It’s a bag that is only sold by her store. Maybe the script
has changed after all. I didn’t know
that one.
By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.
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