Call Me “Sweetie” One More Time…

I’m a woman, and I worked in an electronic store years ago. I once had a gentleman come in and ask about coaxial cable connections; he needed to put a new end in a cable he had.

I happened to be the first to greet him, and he immediately said:

Customer: “Listen, sweetie. I need to talk to one of the guys here; you can’t help me.”

He went over to my male coworker. Immediately after being asked how to put the connection on the cable, my coworker referred the customer to me, as I was the only one in the store at the time that knew how to actually do that.

The dude sputtered and went red. It was one of the greatest moments during my time there.