How rude.... do you agree?

On my way home from a conference today I happened to drive by one of my LQS, one which I had not visited for quite some time, maybe two or three years.  However, I have driven by it many times as it is on the way to my sister's home, my best friend's home and most recently it was on the way home to my parent's house from the hospital where my mother was a patient.  Every time I drove by on those trips to visit family and friends, I thought that it was looking rather shabby and a bit run down.

Well, today I actually had a spare ten minutes or so, so I thought that I would actually pay the LQS a visit - and now I know why it is looking so rundown.

I walked in the door, to find some beautiful looking fabric in bolts on the shelves and I thought to myself - "ooh, lovely" however my initial joy soon turned sour by what I think is rudeness by the shop owner or at the very least very poor salesmanship.

Because I then heard this voice from the next room call out "Are you right just to browse?".  I turned around and saw sitting back in a deck chair (inside?) the shop assistant/owner, with a cup of coffee in her hand, obviously not interested in getting up off that deck chair to assist either me or the other lady who had entered the shop at the same time as me.

I said to her, "Well, actually, I am looking for a few things."

"Do you have any cording, I am making a bag?     "NO!"

"Do you have any christmassy fabric?"  "NO!"

"Do you have a quilting service? I have made a quilt for a friend that I would like to get professionally quilted."        "NO!"

And that was that, no sorries, no suggestion of where else I could go for those things, no further conversation and NO MOVING OFF THAT DECK CHAIR!

I left the LQS, feeling deflated and dissatisfied and I thought to myself "How rude and I am never going there again!"

What do you think?

hugs,

P.S. Update re my Mum:  She is home again and feeling much better, thank goodness.  Thank you so much everyone for your support, kind wishes and prayers.  They helped me so much through this stressful time.