Don't get me wrong I'm a girl who loves shopping, but furniture shopping is by no means my favorite activity. I hate those giant, furniture warehouse showrooms, full of odd-looking furniture. Worst of all they always have overly pushy commissioned salespeople hungry to sell you anything they can. Unfortunately, as a prostitute, I've found regularly replacing ruined bedroom furnishings comes with the job. Recently I had to replace a mattress and ended up at one of those stores. I ended up having a little fun with the pushy sales guy. The experience went something like this.
A short guy, in a cheap suit, opened the door of the oversized furniture warehouse store. He beamed with one of those fake sales guy smiles, "Hi I'm Rob, I'll be helping you find what you're looking for today?"
"I want to see your cheapest, queen size mattress," I told him.
Eagerly Rob replied, "Sure thing, I want to show you our mid-level Euro mattress."
I quickly repeated myself, "I just want to see your cheapest, queen size mattress."
Rob looked at me and started in with the sales pitch, "Well I want you to understand Miss. A bad night's sleep can ruin your whole day. A mattress is not a purchase where you want to skimp on price and end up with an inferior product."
I looked at Rob half in disgust, "So can you point me to your cheapest queen size mattress or not?"
Rob groaned with obvious annoyance as he pointed to a plain, simple, mattress pushed off into the corner of the store. The price tag was slightly hidden from view. But I could tell it was what I was looking for. I smiled, "perfect I'll take it."
Rob pressed on with his sales pitch, "That one's kind of squishy and I've got a lot of complaints about that manufacturer."