Yesterday I was filling up my car at the gas station close to my work. I was approached by one of those guys who sells car cleaners, you know, the one that you spray on and all that nasty dirt comes off your car. I was in a pretty good mood after work, so I decided, “What the heck?”, also, I was the only car there and I figured I should be nice to this guy, or he might attack me. The demonstration wasn’t terrible and when he mentioned that it cleans shower windows, I was pretty interested. I realized that another car with two men in their late 30’s had pulled up to fill up and I think they might have been making fun of this guy. I let the guy finish his little demo even after I was done pumping my gas and from my peripheral view the two guys in the other car shook their head at me as they pulled away. Not in a “Wow, you’re stupid, girl,” but more of a “Don’t listen to this guy, he’s an idiot.” I chuckled inside and told the guy I wasn’t interested.
I learned two things during this little encounter. #1 Sales guys suck. This guy was kind of rude when he was doing his demo. He made me hold the little can of cleaner a couple of times and instead of, “Can you hold this please?” he basically said, “Hold this” and threw the can at me. What the heck? I know it’s probably some sort of marketing strategy for me to hold the product and read about it or something, but you don’t have to be rude about it. #2 Never let someone do a demo about cleaning your car, unless they’re planning on doing the whole thing. Now I have like two clean spots on my car and the rest of it is extremely dirty. Okay, well maybe I SHOULD go get it washed, but it’s annoying that I have to do it b/c of this guy. BLAH!
