"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
...
> Puester wrote:
>> aem wrote:
>
>>> I think I'm as careful a shopper as most but I don't have to keep all
>>> the numbers in my brain, ya know? It's not as though two pounds of
>>> beans was gonna break my bank.
>
>> Basically it was none of her d@mned business what you were
>> buying, how much you were paying, or why.
>>
>> Practice saying "I'm sorry, but I never discuss money with
>> strangers." Phbbbbbt.
>
> A short time after Christmas one year I was waiting on line at
> Williams-Sonoma and one of my items was dish towels. A woman
> walks up behind me in line and says, How much are those towels?
> (I think they are $16 a 4 pack. Whatever) I told her. Wordlessly
> she showed me her towels. Pointed at the price. $7. I thought
> it was cute of her, I just really didn't want the green and red
> Christmas striped ones that were on sale.
> I did feel chastened. She was nice about it but I got the message.
> Still paid my $16.
>
> nancy



Sometimes people are trying to be helpful. Sounds more like an
interrogation on the OP's part. I wouldn't want Christmas towels no matter
what the price.

I did once point out that frozen biscuits beat the heck out of biscuits in a
tube. The shoppers were free to take my suggestion or not. They did head
off to the freezer section We weren't already in the checkout line at
the time.

Jill