Alt text: a text post that reads: Work in retail long enough, and you'll eventually realize the rules for dealing with Customers are exactly the same as dealing with the Fae:
- Avoid eye contact.
- Never reveal your full name.
- Accept nothing They offer you.
- Never verbally agree or disagree with anything They might happen to say.
- To apologize is to acknowledge a debt owed.
- Under no circumstances are you ever to thank Them.
- Remember that They are incapable of reading signs in human languages.
... I don't work with customers and that's exactly how I deal with by coworkers.
And people I randomly meet throughout the day (including eg employees at a store).
For me these are just rules on how to deal with humans.
Now if I see a cat that's a completely different story:
Additionally I will vow to visit again.