Julia Roberts moment

[Gouldengirl9]

Dd is getting married at the end of September.
Today I went to a posh shop in our nearest city.
I'm the wrong side of 60. Only 5ft tall and a size 18 with a flabby belly. Plus I'm only just getting over breast cancer so boobs are lobsided.
DH was with me and we were both dressed in our minds well turned out.
DH stood to one side while I was looking through the dresses, when one of the assistants came over and the first words were that these dresses cost over £300 so if I want to look at the rails at the back they MIGHT be in my price range.
Fortunately DH overheard and is quicker than me gave a good reply.
He said 'my wife has £1000 to spend on an outfit for our daughters wedding and if your stock is only about £300 this is not the shop for her'.
We then left. He was only joking about the £1k. I wanted to go home as I was so upset but he persuaded me to carry on shopping.

After 3 other shops with nothing I liked I came across another posh shop and they couldn't have been more helpful. I chose a dress but parts of it were not working well with my body. They are going to alter it to fit just need to return in August.
And it cost £450 and that includes a hair accessory. Just bag and shoes to get.

Why that assistant was so rude I don't know. Thank goodness no one else was in the shop to hear her say that.

The health visitor asked how much rent I paid for the house I was living in. Seemed a bit surprised that a single mum owned the house and a successful business. When I moved to an even nicer house I declined the health visitor meeting at my house.

Also, this has just reminded me of a time when DH and I were looking into buying a car approx 15 years ago. We saw one we liked and asked the sales guy if we could take it for a test drive.

He told (mid 20's us) "you can't just rock up asking to take any car out you know. Before that stage, we need to know what you are part exchanging and take a deposit so we know you are serious".

So I simply looked him in the eye and said "we don't need to part exchange but what we will do is take our 15K cash and spend it elsewhere". We then walked out before he got the chance to reply!! Knob!

Good for your DH. My DH and I had a similar encounter 30 years. We only had a Motorbike at the time and saved and saved for our first car. We get to the dealership and walked in to which the salesmen said “ you do know these cars are not cheap don’t you “. I said yes of course. He then ignored us as we stood there and my DH said “excuse me we are looking to buy a new car “. The salesman tutted and walked over. At which I said “ actually forget it “ and we walked out. We then drove to another dealership ( same car) and bought a new one with a lovely chap. We had cash in the bank and made sure we told the salesman what had happened… funny outcome was the other dealership closed shortly after. Lack of sales was the reason.

My partner, who is a recognisable and not short of a bob or two wanted to buy a property in the UK. He was in the States working when I saw an estate agency in a lovely English village, hopped out of my car in my scruffies and saw the perfect place in the window. They would not give me the details. Wanted proof of finance available. Just told me to come back with my partner (said with a we don't believe you look). Possibly also influenced by my "Estuary English" accent, who knows?
He came home, we went back, stopped in the local. Got chatting to the barman, who said he knew the owners of the property and would introduce us. Result was we now live in a place I could only have dreamed of and it was purchased direct without any estate agent involved. I would be surprised if the agents haven't realised this, it's quite a small place.

I don't get this.

... I think the interviewee told the interviewer to "move it fattie", obviously with no idea she would be interviewing him that day.

Yep that's the crux of it. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

From the other side of the counter ... I worked in a "prestigious" outlet as a "just left uni" job. I had a very snooty male colleague, the idiot type who valued people on where they went to school and what car they drive. Trust fund rich kid arsehole basically.

One day an older gent wandered in looking a bit lost. Knackered old Barbour jacket, mucky jeans, wellies. Slight tang of cowshit and wet gun dog. Colleague took one sneers look and sent me over. Older chap was an absolute delight to serve, we had a right laugh and he dropped a very large five figure sum on our items. Turns out he was a very wealthy landowner.

My commission paid all my bills that month plus a nice weeks holiday in the sun. I sent snooty colleague a charming postcard.

On a very much smaller scale:

A few years ago I was visiting family in the town where I grew up. My family have never been well off, but now DH and I are doing alright.

I popped into the local boutique/gift shop. Usual tat, candles, scarves etc but also some lovely glassware. I'd recently broken a special to me wine glass, and they stocked something very similar and quite lovely. One sales assistant when asked if I could see them (take them out of the cabinet) was very snooty and said "they're very expensive" and walked off. The younger sales assistant got the key to the cabinet, apologised for rude lady, and sold me a set of six.

I took great delight in praising young lady to the owner when the owner walked in.

@MushyPeasPrincess I love that!

@NCTDN it certainly taught me never to judge by initial appearances. A couple of our most wealthy and generous clients looked like they'd been dragged through a muddy hedge backwards after sleeping in it all night

When I lived in Wimbledon a few years ago, I was suffering from a bit of PND after having twins. I got one rare morning off to shop in the village. I walked into Matches and had a look around - the women who walked in after me were offered champagne with lots of friendly giggles...god that hurt...my confidence was rock bottom - but to actually know you were invisible.
Your dh is a star!

Brilliant!!

I love your husband! I'm glad you found something and I hope you will feel amazing in it.

@MushyPeasPrincess
Love that! I bet your colleague is kicking himself and that it's taught him to treat
all customers with respect!

OP, your husband is brilliant for that quick retort.
We had similar years ago when looking for a new car. Both of us mid 20s and had the cash coming in from a sizeable bonus. We'd rung round dealerships and got test drives booked in. On the day of one of them, it was stinking hot and we were wearing t-shirts and shorts. The salesman took one look at us and refused, despite all our details being available. Went to our next appointment where we spoke to the manager who was horrified by their attitude and said they'd never pay that much for a car without a test drive either. We bought the car from that second dealer, along with quite a few extras put on it. Never had bad service from them either.

I had this in a down at heel shoe shop: "you do know our shoes are very expensive". I thought it was quite funny. They were cheaper than Clarks!

Facebook or Google review.
the manager will want to know

An architect I called to look at remodeling our flat (so no extensions). I said my budget was 60k. Too small apparently. We'd been to his small flat as part of an Open House weekend. Had some interesting cabinetry, sliding doors and window seats of things.

I designed it myself in the end.