Chuckles at a big box store

[Iambjm]

So I am at the big box M store yesterday picking up supplies for the Yetti build, and I asked a young employee (early 20's) about some things I needed. When I told him I needed them for a wheelhouse he asked "what's a wheelhouse?" I looked at him like he had 2 heads and told him it was a fish house on wheels. He said "ohhhh, picking up stuff for the hubby?" I told him no, I was doing all the finishing work. Then he really stuck his size 12 foot in his mouth and said "but your a woman, and aren't you kind of old for that?" At that point I wanted to slam him to the floor, but just walked away figuring "stupid is as stupid does".

[leech~~]

Well now you handled it just fine! You could have offered to take the poor boy fishing some time to help educate the him on the fine art of ice fishing which his mom or dad never did. Of course once you got him out in the house in the middle of now where you could have worked him over with a ice scoop then!

[efgh]

You could have said like Fraiser on T.V. What color is the sky on the world you live on?

[Powerstroke]

A perfect reflection of that generation. Now I'm not much older than him (I'm 31) but I can say that the group of people born in the decade after me seem to have little social filter because they have grown up sharing every personal thought on the internet and they also have little common sense about keeping rude comments to yourself, even if it appears to be true.

Just walk away. That's usually the only way to get out alive.

[Gordie]

You did the right thing lambjm.

I may have tried to tell him that the wheels on the bus go round and round...up and down just dont fall under the bus when your looking for those wheels

[mnviking28]

If it makes you feel any better...most of the help at these big box stores need help trying to tie their shoes. It isn't just women that get the blank stares and rude comments. I have asked some of their "specialists" in certain departments for exactly the tool or other building supply I want and they try to convince me that I need something else, because they have no idea what I am talking about. It would be like me telling a doctor how to do open heart surgery. Like Powerstroke said, I think its more about the generation than anything.

[Cicada]

That would not be tolerated in the "M" store up here. You could maybe contact the manager and give him/her the link to the Women's forum on this site and instruct her/him to look for your post. Make sure that they take notice of how many people (1399 as I write this) have read this story and ask him/her, or her/him, how they think this reflects on their leadership skills. My bet: it will get posted on the bulletin board at work. That type of behavior is disgraceful no matter how you look at it.