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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm 45 and still don't understand what it means to be invisible.  Can someone provide some specific examples?  [/quote]

A 30 year old shoe sales person is gossiping away with another thirty year old.  No shoes are getting sold or even being tried on, although there is a heap of shoes surrounding the thirty year old customer.  Finally, you interrupt and the sales woman blows you off and keeps on gossiping.  You complain and then find another sales person and proceed to buy two pairs of shoes.  It gets old.  [/quote]Are you sure that's because you're older?  Maybe they just give bad service to everyone.[/quote]

I ran into this in Sephora recently.  There were a couple of 20 something shoppers in the store and the clerk was falling all over herself helping them - showing them this, giving them samples of that.  That's o.k. I could wait until the clerk was done with them.  Well those shoppers (who didn't actually buy anything, just got samples) finished up and left...and that sales lady could not even be bothered to look my way.  I got the impression that she was deliberately ignoring me.  Why?  I've never run into that in Sephora before - ever.  It was very strange.  I did wonder at the time if that clerk was ignoring me because I'm obviously well over 35.  [/quote]PP here.  I see what you mean.  I guess this is what African Americans go through sometimes -- trying to figure out why you're being ignored, is it race, something else, or just a coincidence?  Seems exhausting.  Now that I think of it, I don't go shopping much at all -- so maybe I haven't noticed this because I'm not out in places like Sephora.[/quote]

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