Groundhog Day

Like Bill Murray's experience in Groundhog Day, re-living the same thing day-in and day-out gets really, really, really old. At least Bill had the luxury of acting out his aggressions.

I have had this conversation so many times that I wanted to scream today when it came up again:

customer: What size would I be in here?

salesgirl: What size do you normally wear? (note: I know what size you wear, but saying you look like a size 6 to a size 4 is just as bad as saying "when are you due?")

customer: I don't know.

salesgirl: You don't know what size you are? What are you wearing now?

customer: Well, I want to know what size I would be in your store.

salesgirl: We run relatively true-to-size so if you are typically a 6, you'd be a 6 here...depending on the fit of the garment and which designer we're comparing.

customer: I am a 4! I have never been a size 6 in my life!

**Sigh**

She really was a 6, by the way.

So, that got me thinking about all of the annoying phrases and queries we hear all the time.

• I bet you spend your whole paycheck in here.
  
• I bet you never go home with any money.
  
• I'll take one of everything.
  
• I'm your best customer.
  
• I'm just looking.
  
• I'm just 'getting ideas'.
  
• My husband said I looked fat in this.
  
• My friend said it made me look hippy.
  
• Do you have something in my size? (said by the male companion)
  
• Does this wash me out?
  
• What goes with these black pants?
  
• What goes with this white shirt?
  
• Did you make this in a size 8? I don't see one.
  
• Can you tell me what time it is?
  
• Is it okay if we bring our ice cream in here?
  
• Where is the bathroom?
  
• Can you break this for me?
  
• Can you give me directions?


• When will this go on sale?


• It's so cold in here. How can you stand it?


• It's so hot in here. How can you stand it?


• The music is so loud in here.
  
• It's so quiet in here.
  
• Oprah said not to wear such-and-such.
  
• Oprah said I should wear such-and-such.
  
• What Not To Wear said you should only wear such-and-such.
  
• What Not To Wear said you should never wear such-and-such.


• My husband said if I brought home one more shopping bag, he'd kill me.


• Do you think they have this in the store across town?


• You should tell your corporate office that they should make (insert terrible idea.)


• How long can you hold this?


• *Answers store telephone in the middle of the afternoon* Are you open?
  
• I'm looking for something I saw in here a year ago, do you still have it?

Image credit Life Magazine, 1951.