I am not often left totally speechless when talking to customers but I just had the winner of the day. A woman looks at all the soap and then holds up an uscented goat milk and shea bar and says "I'll take this one." I get a little bag and I am about to plop the soap into said bag when she leans in and asks (and I swear she lowered her voice a notch) "would this be good for a black woman?".
So I stop putting the soap in the back. I sort of shrugged my shoulders and did the "sort of depends" hand gesture and said "hmmmmmmmmmm" while my brain tried to figure out what she was asking. In the 15 seconds it took for my brain to bubble up the answer "it should be good, but it depends on her skin type...." she said, "well I would have thought you'd know that!" And she disappeared back into the unwashed masses....leaving me speechless.
Sorry, my soap ESP must have been on the fritz or perhaps I just wasn't working on the proper assumption that all black women have the exact same skin type.
At least no one dropped a piece of chicken under my stand yet.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry and any spelling errors are due to the really tiny keys
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