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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Metus" data-source="post: 3490742" data-attributes="member: 185">I would agree with you on the odds.  It is funny how many people have run into the asocial game store clerk/owner.  In all honesty, I have been very underwhelmed by all LGS I've gone to, so I'm not even claiming a different experience.I think that's true, and that's part of what bothers me.  Because the customer base is more easily offended, even a normal amount of politeness won't cut it.  You have to be extra polite to thin-skinned people.  So, even if you just take a casual, average attitude towards politeness, you're still considered rude and lacking.  I guess I'm contemptous of that, of having to mollycoddle your audience, even if it is necessary for good business, but that's just my own personal feelings.I wonder about that.  Having worked retail, I got used to the "problem customers."  Being thin-skinned was a trait of theirs, or perhaps just looking for a reason to be offended.  A lot of times, they were the ones saying, "Is that a scratch?  I think that's a scratch.  I want a discount.  Is this new?  Is it old?  I think I should get another discount," as I tried not to sigh and roll my eyes.  They were also the ones who would frequently return products after using them, or just generally be a hassle.  A lot of times they were bad for the store.On the other hand, I haven't worked in gaming retail, and as people have pointed out in the thread, it's somewhat of a different beast.  I realize gaming stores are more hard-up for customers, and so need to value them more.  Still, that doesn't make a difficult customer any less difficult.All this being said, I hope it doesn't seem like I'm saying that gamer clerks/store owners are not actually asocial.  A lot of them really are.  I'd even say most of them.  But as EditorBFG pointed out, the customers of gaming stores are also more thin-skinned (a bad combo, I guess), so it could be the asocial gaming store clerk, or it could be a thin-skinned customer.  I'll repeat my take on the situation, that being that the store clerk wasn't polite, and the customer was thin-skinned.</blockquote>

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