J36- Sunday, March 3, 1988 - North Shore News

Clerk reading greeting cards makes customer embarrassed

DEAR MISS MANNERS — More than once, when IT was purchasing greeting cards, the clerk opened the card and read the verse before ringing up the sale.

My cards are far from coarse or crude. They are chosen with a lot of care and personal sentiment. | actually consider them as private as 0 letter and am very uncomfort- able to have somebody other than the intended recipient reading them.

Am I oversensitive about this? If not, what Is a response that would be least Hkely to offend or sound petty? I’ve tried placing the cards face down, to no avail.

GENTLE READER — Reading the verse at the register seems rather a silly practice, and Miss Manners prefers to belicve that the clerk is merely searching the card

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having clerks see what one is buy- ing is also silly. ft can even get ex- pensive, when shy people resort to buying items they don't want in order to hide one they don't want seen.

The fact is that printed cards are not the same as letters or notes: they are massed-produced and displayed for sale. If the clerk is taking the opportunity of the sale to amuse himself by reading the card, Miss Manners can at least promise you that he is not connec- ting this with the particular cir- cumstances of your purchase. Only if you are asked an impertinent question about the card may you take offence to the extent of say- ing, ‘‘Please just ring up the pur- chase."’

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