Non-motoring > How to get a grunt and grimace - Garden Centres Miscellaneous
Thread Author: Vicar of Bray Replies: 7

 How to get a grunt and grimace - Garden Centres - Vicar of Bray
To work towards this you start about 13 years ago and start buying plants. The years move on and you have spent a couple of thousand there - a quarter of that in bamboo.
Then you become a regular most Mornings when your wife is out at work, at the Garden Centre cafe.

It`s essential for the whole thirteen years to smile and say `good morning` to all the staff as you encounter them.
The joy is that towards the end of the period you get a grudging `grunt and grimace` from about 30% of the staff. 50% ignore you totally - a further 18% avoid eye contact and the remainder look the other way as customers walk past.

You then go into town and look at watches or mobile phones and staff come on to you with broad smiles and loving looks as though they are your girlfriend.

I mean, what`s the next step - hugging?

Freaky or what? Give me the Garden Centre model of customer engagement - please.
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 How to get a grunt and grimace - Garden.. new Vicar of Bray 28 Feb 10 05:48
 How to get a grunt and grimace - Garden C.. new Pat 28 Feb 10 06:15
 How to get a grunt and grimace - Garden .. new Zero 28 Feb 10 10:30
 How to get a grunt and grimace - Garden.. new Pat 28 Feb 10 14:10
 How to get a grunt and grimace - Garde.. new Zero 28 Feb 10 14:22
 How to get a grunt and grimace - Gar.. new Netsur 28 Feb 10 14:33
 How to get a grunt and grimace - Ga.. new crocks 28 Feb 10 14:45
 How to get a grunt and grimace - G.. new Pat 28 Feb 10 16:51
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