OMG, that looks FANTASTIC on you!

I have decided to start this first post with a complaint. I really and truly dislike in-your-face, peppy, loudmouth salespeople in retail! Now I understand that I do at the moment work in sales, but I really try to speak in my normal voice and not talk to people like they are complete morons. Everywhere I go lately, either chubby girls with too much makeup on or women in their 40's-50's with too much makeup on seem to be hounding me with new products, sales, and basically not letting me shop in peace.

I have compiled a short list of recent offenders:

1) THE BODY SHOP
This place has really been getting my goat lately. I basically avoid going in there now, as I have basically been accosted the last 5 times I have attempted to shop in there, usually fleeing within three minutes, gasping for air and vowing that is the last time. I have replaced all my old Body Shop products with Biotherm, Aveeno, or simply Dove soap. I've also somewhat recently noticed that the older I get, the shitter I am finding their products to be. The only thing I really like buying from there is their chamomile eye makeup remover, which I unfortunately cannot find a decent replacement for (ideas welcome!).
I have an awesome strategy for that though- I know exactly where the stuff is located, and so I beeline toward it, avoid eye contact with anyone, and am at the counter before the fat beauty queens can even blink an eye. Perfection.

2) The Wine Shop
I desperately try never, ever to buy wine from these little Canadian wine stops. Mostly because I can't stand the taste of 99% of Canadian reds, unless they're going for about $50 a bottle. I know the super trendy thing to do lately is "Go Local", but if I wanted to drink weird tasting grape juice I'd buy it from a can thank you very much! I'm not a wine snob but I know when my wine tastes like crap. Sorry, Ontario.
Anyway- my other grievance is that the same woman seems to be working at every location I go into in Ajax. I guess they rotate. Of course this lady means well, but I really don't need to be followed around the little store being told how amazing their $11 bottle of Hillenbrand merlot is. I also don't need to stand around for 10 minutes after I've already purchased whatever desperation bottle I've come there for, being told how this one customer thought she was married to one of her co-workers because she saw them hugging each other but really they are both married to OTHER people and HA HA HA isn't that hilarious? NO IT'S NOT! GIVE ME MY CHEAP RIESLING AND LET ME OUT OF THIS VORTEX!

3) 'S Waitresses
Although I try to avoid eating at these establishments, when you're living in Ajax sometimes you just plain run out of options and succumb to the easiest route. Almost every time I eat at one of the 'S restaurants (Casey's, Jack Astor's, Montana's, etc), I am forced to deal with the giggling, peppy, annoying teenage behaviour of these waitresses. Do they get a bonus for being that perky for the entire evening? Give me my 2nd rate veggie burger and sweet potato fries and get out of my face, "hun".

Well...that's that.

I'm sure I could come up with more examples, but that is the gist- I have a newfound great respect for servers/retail personnel who are just simply polite, efficient, and calm. I think I would even take surly over the above.