I was neither the recipient or participant in this... but I sure as hell was there so watch it unfold:
Working in retail - selling more fashionable end clothing; just me and the supervisor in the shop at the time, and a um... a couple walks in, and well - my supervisor kind of just blurts out: "Oh, so nice you take your mother out with you!".
The 'mother' was incensed - that was actually the dude's GIRLFRIEND, to which she proceeded to call my supervisor a *****. There was a lot of apologies being lathered back, they were... nice enough to keep browsing... or possibly just trying to make my supervisor as uncomfortable as possible by sticking around.
But I had to agree - maybe that woman ought to take a little more pride in her appearance when going out with her boyfriend or such (come on, show you're still trying for the dude at least - he'd do the same if it was a good relationship). Unless she's ill or something, then- well... genuine apologies to her. I mean, even the guy looked a bit detached - she really did look like someone's older relative.
Working in retail - selling more fashionable end clothing; just me and the supervisor in the shop at the time, and a um... a couple walks in, and well - my supervisor kind of just blurts out: "Oh, so nice you take your mother out with you!".
The 'mother' was incensed - that was actually the dude's GIRLFRIEND, to which she proceeded to call my supervisor a *****. There was a lot of apologies being lathered back, they were... nice enough to keep browsing... or possibly just trying to make my supervisor as uncomfortable as possible by sticking around.
But I had to agree - maybe that woman ought to take a little more pride in her appearance when going out with her boyfriend or such (come on, show you're still trying for the dude at least - he'd do the same if it was a good relationship). Unless she's ill or something, then- well... genuine apologies to her. I mean, even the guy looked a bit detached - she really did look like someone's older relative.