Retail and Dating

I dare to write observations I've made about both arenas in one post in less than an hour.
Retail
- AM Shift-
At aproximately 9:45 am did the short pony tail, Ray Ban sunglasses wearing, bulky muscled man in a tight fancy technical Under Armour shirt almost runs through our glass doors without shoes. Once inside he barely breaks momentum to yell through-out the still empty store,
"I've woken up in a strange place and cannot find my shoes!!!!"
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At about 11 am a well dressed and extremely fit middle aged couple wander the store with their salt and pepper colored Great Dane named Raykijak (Icelandic in origins_and my memory of the dog's name carefully sewen with intricate seed beads on the color may not be accurate). What a BEAUTIFUL specimen.
I can't wait until i can afford my own large breed- great swiss mountain dog.
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Folding Shirts- we stack our shirts x-small on the top to to xx-large on the bottom. This is some form of mild discrimination against larger consumers. The associates pay for this way of displaying sizes when the person in need of the larger size carelessly and with what appears to be without guilt knock over all smaller sizes in the process of reaching theirs. Forever am I folding shirts...yay for Sartre, Kant, and quantum physics.
Although, the skinnier people don't have to lift a large pile of shirts or reach to the farthest part of the rack for their clothes they do have to deal with hardly any of their clothes ever going on sale.
The more material used the less money it costs...guh.
- I have to laugh-
A man gave me a stern lecture about inventory knowledge and awareness since our store didn't carry enough cotton based apparel. The poor fellow was allergic to polyester.
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Customers that scapegoat an associate, like me, at the fitting rooms when they don't think they look good in the outfit they chose. royal pain.
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So many suits walk into our store. It is at the fitting rooms where the corporate field is leveled- spandex and tapered polyester shirts are good for that. Once at the registers people are neatly placed back on the corresponding rung on the social ladder. It sucks telling some one their card has been declined...
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Europeans that take in 15+ items to the fitting room and take 45 minutes to try it on and only buy 1 thing...frustrating. (we have a 5 minimum and only 3 rooms).
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The mother/father with their adult child pairs at the from the fitting rooms to the register. Money keeps hard boundaries/reigns on the family roles.
"Ooo. i like this (item) a lot but i know my mother/father would never approve."- grown child
"Now I can't spend any more money on you this month."- parent at the register
-How Do you Do and Shake Hands, State Your Name and Business-disney tweetle dee and dum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CcsGUaajs4&feature=related
Where to start? sigh.
The older people get, or at least the one's i've met, the more cautious they are. There is a reason they're still single...good or bad. I have difficulty understand why the older we get the more we try to avoid the pain of getting burned or turned down. If anything, we should have by the age of 25 at least habituated to the common reasons romantic relationships fail in our own lives. We should have more confidence and trust in ourselves with the experience that comes with age.
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I went on 2 dates with a man who never asked himself or had anyone ask him questions like: What sorts of qualities are looking for?
How come you have these current feelings of hostility and fear of women?
What do you want right now? (yes, this question is harder than the last two...but, that he had never once in his 25 years asked himself that question...idk.)
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Grievance- the thin (athletic) ones who eat a crappy diet. Diet falls into lifestyle...food is an important part to the survival of a long term relationship.
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When giving a general description of the type of person i see myself with, somehow the wires got crossed in the conversation and my friend confused it with the breed of dog i want...yikes...i need to work on that.
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The point of online dating is to bypass the little pinch of pain that comes with seeing the look of disinterest in a person's face when they look at yours. Guys that come at me with defensive messages after i don't respond to theirs or that get overly offended when i don't call back for a second date are what i see as a form of emotional instability- the type that is a deal breaker in my mind.
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There are 6 billion+ people on Earth...it's OK to have preferences.