Do I Tip The BagBoy?
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008Do you live in a town or city(?) small enough where you can still have your groceries bagged for you AND taken out to your car? I do. Now, I don’t do as much of the shopping anymore as I am unable to walk around the store but I wonder what is proper etiquette where bagboys are concerned? After all, you tip the pizza delivery guy, and the paper boy, and the stripper boy…..ooops, different blog, again!
I ask only because I am concerned about surf etiquette . Sure we all know to take time to look at other folk’s sites. That’s a given. Are there other ways to maintain the politeness level on line?
This is, as I’ve stated at least once before, a pretty faceless society. Yep, your pic is right up there next to your “JOIN ME AND MAKE A MILLION” but how much time do you take to get to know your fellow TE members? Do you know their age? What about their birthday? How about their husband/wife’s name? I bet you are saying well, really Camille, who cares? You Should! For it is these folks that you surf beside every day who could potentially become a customer. Do you plan to only become acquainted after they buy something? Don’t you think that it might be to your advantage to get to know them BEFORE you take their money?
But, Camille, come on, what are the chances they’ll become a customer of mine? As much of a chance as there is they’ll become one of mine!
You sell Whazoos for $.79, three doors up the street I sell the same Whazoos for $.79. Sam, a guy we both heard had been looking for Whazoos is getting closer to buying one. Tuesday is the day we heard he’s going shopping for Whazoos. You line up all your best Whazoos, I dust mine off too (what a whord to type). You fix your bowtie as you see Sam walking purposfully down the street. Sam nods as he walks past you, with your Whazoos sitting out! You watch as he opens the door and buys a mess of Whazoos, has a cup of coffee and then leaves Whazooville, my store. Curious, (sure I can share that tendency), you stop Sam and ask him why. Turns out, Sam and I belong to the same club, the “What To Do With Your Whazoo” Club. You say, “Sam, I belong to that club too. I saw you there last Thursday remember? You were filling out some form on the bulletin board. I nodded at you as you passed by me. You even nodded back.” Sam asks if you knew what it was he was filling out on the board? Sadly you have to admit that you didn’t and he tell you it was an announcement to all Whazooers that your third son had arrived and you were looking for an unusual nickname for him. And then you find out that amongst the vast number of Whazooers that had offered a suggestion, I had left one Sam and his wife found just so darling, that they were already having Whazoos labeled for the child. A bit embarrassed that you had not bothered to check out the side wall, you congratulated Sam and his wife and then asked Sam if that was why he had gone to my store and made the purchase. “Well sort of, you see, I just stopped in to thank Camille for the comment she had left, saw that her Whazoos were the same price and value as yours and figured while I was there I might as well get that Whazoo I wanted to place over my new son’s crib. But just so you don’t misunderstand me, Drew, it was not a form on the wall, it was an offer to visit the Whazoo FORUM and leave a name choice. Camille went there and as I said out of the 40 or 50 posts, Pam and I just had to pick hers. I didn’t think I saw your name amongst the postings, too bad, I’d have just as easily picked your store, you know.”
A hundred to one you didn’t see that one coming did you? Huh, did YOU?
Later folks 
curioscat aka Camille http://forum.dare2click.com/ http://www.dare2click.com/54838 So what was the nickname I picked for Sam and Pam’s little Whazoo? You know where to find it ……
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