No need in trying to justify yourself to some of the people on here who are obviously living in an alternate reality than the rest of us. |
No, I'm not lying. I live in Montgomery County, and I have never encountered a retail person I couldn't communicate with in English. |
How nice for you! If I had well over $39,000 to blow, I wouldn't blow it on custom-built kitchen cabinets, but different people are different. |
![]() I have a relative who spent over 100k for Llamas. |
Have some of you truly never encountered retail staff who do not speak enough English to help you at a store? Aren't you lucky. It's not common, and other times the person clearly understands English very well, even if they don't speak it very well. Sometimes I just can't understand the accent. |
18 year DC resident. I don't recall ever encountering a retail salesperson who didn't speak English. I don't buy a lot in the burbs these days, since shopping online is easier, but I don't recall my encountering anyone there who couldn't help me. I also don't usually have a problem understand ing accent s |
I've lived a lot of places, and generally in lower cost areas, people working retail are more helpful. It has nothing to do with race or ethnicity. It's because in cheap cost of living areas, retail is not such a terrible job. In high cost of living areas, retail is a shitty job and people are generally very stressed and unhappy to be working those jobs. |
I would work at an AMES if they were still open. ![]() |
Maybe OP just couldn't understand their accents. I once had a coworker from Britain meet with a vendor from Tennessee and they couldn't understand each other's English. |
I understand "southern" very well and speak it when I'm in the South and I've never had to ask people to repeat themselves more often than when I've been to Nashville. I didn't quite understand how "pen" could be a two syllable word. |
s/o title of this thread -- When I want a particular answer to prove I am right, I'll ask the person who will give me that answer. |