In your own time

Anyone else infuriated by shop staff who find customers an inconvenience?

I was in Selfridges yesterday with my wife who had found a particular watch she was sure would go with her outfit for our son's wedding . After asking an assistant a question about the said timepiece she then watched him vanish off to serve a couple who had just arrived and presumably promised a higher commission.

The couple then proceeded to ask slightly more questions than you would expect in a whole series of Who Wants to be a before walking off without buying anything, so at long last, my wife, who was the only other customer and was starting to lose interest in the whole affair, was finally expecting to be served.

But no, along comes a second assistant telling her they will be with her in a minute and the two sales staff proceed to have a chat, whereupon my wife, a guaranteed sale, walked off declaring she did not want the watch that much