Comments on: why being friendly is bad

By: jen

jen — Sat, 26 May 2007 12:56:15 +0000

haha!! I’ve always kind of scanned your blogs, never really left comments, but I work at Target and know exactly what you’re saying…sometimes, I hate asking people because I feel so fake…if guests needed help, they’d ask! but they push the “Can I Help You Find Something?” pretty hard core….so on behalf of countless others….sorry! Most of the time, though, honestly, I mean it…it just really comes with the job.

By: christi

christi — Wed, 16 May 2007 09:16:01 +0000

I am from Georgia born and raised and recently moved to Colorado. People here are very different. They never say please, thank you, excuse me etc. I work in retail so i see people from all walks of life in Colorado. I have had stranges ask me if they can use my laptop, cell phone, borrow money, sit in my chair (while im sitting in it) etc. I have had people accidently bump into me and not say excuse me. People here are just rude and their children are even worse. They are in tha mall unattended at age 7 to 17 and get into so much trouble. I never saw this in GA!!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 11 May 2007 02:41:26 +0000

The kindness of Target employees in the (pseudo)suburbs astounds me. But, even my genuinely nice Oklahoma man has this to say about the people who greet you at those types of stores: “I just don’t know what to say back…because they’re not really talking to ME.”

By: H2fromNTX

H2fromNTX — Thu, 10 May 2007 03:44:07 +0000

Wow,fishie. Do you think that if I said that I was a Native American-Mexican American-German that got the same nice-happy-to-see-ya southern hospitality at the Sherman and McKinney Tar-je that they could jump on that? Heh, love your blog!

By: aliastaken

aliastaken — Sat, 05 May 2007 01:02:33 +0000

@Amy: I moved from PA to NJ ten years ago, and I still haven’t found this magical cheek-kissing, so-happy-people-seem-perpetually-drunk state to which you refer. In my experience, Jersey is a very tough crowd. I don’t think I’ll ever find a man to love here, unless he was born and raised somewhere else!