Stump The Demo Girl

[celticgrl]

I debated a couple of days before posting this since it is more of a WTF than an actual suck. The customer just had me really at her reaction anyways onto the story.

For the last two weeks I have been doing a roadshow for a company at my local discount warehouse club trying to sale goodies for the holidays and getting people to try said goodies. Every time somebody had a kid with them I told the kids they had to answer to questions before they were allowed the goodies. Had they been a good boy or girl for Santa and What was something they were asking for?

Customer stops at the table I go into my spiel about how the goodies are made and were then ask if she would like to try them which she agrees.

Me:
WTF Lady - We all know who this is.

Me: For two pretty little girls to try the goodies you have to answer a question for me. Can you do that?

The two little girls maybe 4 and 5 smile and nod their heads as I hand over the goodies in the little cup.

Me: Have you been good for Santa this year?
WTFL snatched the cups out of the little girls hands- We dont celebrate Santa in our house only Jesus.
The two little girls look devastated that the treat they had just been given was taking away as the mother stomps off leaving me going

Now I was raised in a Southern Baptist home and never in all my years of attending said fire and damnation type church have I ever seen somebody get so upset about Santa being mentioned to children. So Like I said just a little WTF I would say most of the customer were great let me do my thing then took what I was offering and I didn't do to bad on getting them to buy the product either. Even after mostly great customers I keep saying to myself is it dec 26th yet so I can go back to doing taxes that always has fun stories.

[AccountingDrone]

Some of the fundies are twitchy about Santa [and also some of the mainstream - Jehovas Witnesses? Can't remember offhand but I remember they don't do Christmas at all. Oddly enough, early Puritains didn't do Christmas either.]

mMMmMmm fudge. Looks better than some of the other commercial fudgeries that use coconut fat as a substitute for cocoa fat and real butter and dairy in their products.

[Rob got suckered into buying some fudge on base a few months ago, they swore up and down that it was dairy and cocoa butter and such, but the way my body reacted there was a fair amount of coconut fat in there. ]

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Bet WTF Lady also goes postal whenever anybody in a store wishes her Happy Holidays.

[bainsidhe]

That's too bad, but to each their own I guess. She could've been much more polite about it.

I remember working at Media Play and hawking reservations for the new (at the time) Harry Potter book. There were a few people who practically snarled at me that they did NOT want to reserve the book or that it was the devil's work. Um okay, no problem, have a nice day now. Fortunately it was very few that got upset and I would very quickly change the subject.

[thehuckster]

I've known a few religious folks who at least chose not to tell their kids about Santa when they were growing up in favor of a more "this is about Jesus' birth" kind of thing, but they were much nicer about references to Santa than this woman.

[emax4]

Eh, don't take it to heart. How many times does that happen to other people doing the same thing? That's a minor occurrence. The kids are probably crying because they also realized that Santa is nicer than their mother.

[Pixilated]

Five'll get you 10 that at least one of her kids walks away from their religion when they get older and she won't have a clue why.

[celticgrl]

[Rob got suckered into buying some fudge on base a few months ago, they swore up and down that it was dairy and cocoa butter and such, but the way my body reacted there was a fair amount of coconut fat in there. ]

I was skeptical at first about how good boxed fudge could be but was surprised to find it very good but I just can't see spending that much on fudge.

Bet WTF Lady also goes postal whenever anybody in a store wishes her Happy Holidays.

I would have loved have seen her reaction when I was talking to one gentleman and noticed he a yamakle on so I wished him Happy Chanukah.

Eh, don't take it to heart. How many times does that happen to other people doing the same thing? That's a minor occurrence. The kids are probably crying because they also realized that Santa is nicer than their mother.

Yeah I didn't let it bother me been in some form of customer service on and off since I was 15.

[shopgirl15]

What a class A bitch.

[mhkohne]

There's a fair population of Santa-dislikers around, and for those of a religious bent, I can see the point of making things be about the religion, not th secular overlay. Most of them aren't arrogant dbags who get offended when the universe makes it obvious that their way of thinking isn't universal.

Just more proof that SCs are everywhere, and SCness isn't limited by any boundary.

[Merriweather]

Having beliefs other than the most commonly held ones in your locale is fine - expecting others to somehow know your beliefs are different and change their own behavior to suit you, that's what makes one an SC.

[Ironclad Alibi]

We don't celebrate Santa in our house, only Jesus.

Does that mean Jesus brings them Christmas presents?

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Having beliefs other than the most commonly held ones in your locale is fine - expecting others to somehow know your beliefs are different and change their own behavior to suit you, that's what makes one an SC.

I couldn't have said that better myself.

That said, that was definitely an extreme reaction on the part of that "customer."

*mod hat and cape on*

But let's remember to focus on the sucky aspect of the OP and not let it drift off toward religious beliefs. That can better be discussed at Fratching.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread . .

[MoonCat]

Geez, you'd think she could have let them have the treats and then reinforce the household practices later.

[celticgrl]

Geez, you'd think she could have let them have the treats and then reinforce the household practices later.

I know that was the worst to me the lady I can take the disappointment on those two adorable little girls faces that had said Please and Thank you to me broke my heart.