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#1 ·
Long story to set up a completely ridiculous question. If you're not wanting to read a lot skip to the second to last paragraph. This is mostly venting anyway. :dry:

I was out shopping for a car and it reminded me how much I hate dealing with salespeople. My budget was $10k because I wanted to pay cash. I knew that this meant I wouldn't get that great of a car but I'm ok with that since I'll have a nice paycheck in a couple of years. So, I decided to go cheap, but reliable.

Enter salesman. It always annoys me when I specifically state my budget and say "under $10k" and they start by showing me $16k cars but I've come to expect that. I finally got this guy to understand my budget so I was pretty sure we could start to find something. My method of car shopping is to go in with my budget, find the cars they have in that range and then look around until something strikes my fancy. This guy didn't get it. He kept asking me what I wanted and I kept saying that I'd know when I saw it.

And the he comes out with this question: "If I could get you your dream car, what would it be?" My response was: "A Volvo. Get me one of those for under $10k with less than 50k miles." :rolleyes: I couldn't hide how stupid I thought he was. I ended up buying a car from that dealer but really, what a stupid question. And I found the car exactly how I said I would: walking through the lot looking at what he showed me and seeing something else that was just what I wanted.

Anyone else have an experience like this? This was really annoying at the time but now I find it amusing.
 
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#2 ·
This is like when my grandma takes me clothes shopping at the mall. First of all, that place is like the place of my nightmares. Every time we go we pass a MMA place and I try to talk my dad into leaving me there while they shop... still hasn't worked. I'd much rather go risk breaking something that look through ANOTHER rack of ripped up jeans...

Anyway, she'll always ask me what I like/want and I'll never have an answer. I just want to look around. If something strikes my fancy then I'll consider it. And she'll do this thing where I'll say "I need a pair of jeans" and she'll manage to find THE ONE PAIR I would never wear. The one that's more holes that jeans with diamonds all over the butt and that I'd have to have a Barbie figure to fit into.

People just don't understand how we think and operate.
 
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Yeah I have sort of a mixed approach to buying things. Either go to whatever place and look around looking for good items, then return home to research, then either back to the store or web order depending on where the better deal is. Sometimes I skip the initial trip and research first then try and find a place that has it before I go search around.

Some sales people at great like @Benja mentioned, they know their stuff and are super helpful. Others just sort of go through the motions/script as @immortalhaldir experienced. You either have to be firm about what you want or keep declining what they are suggesting and giving more parameters. If all else fails just tell them to point you to the area with the cars you're interested in and leave you alone. I hate shopping with salespeople hovering over me, it's so distracting and hard to think.

You can also sometimes abuse your ISTP quiet and sometimes unfriendly demeanor to get better deals. Sometimes that uncomfortable-for-others silence can help push things in your favor.



Your grandma wants to buy you bedazzled and ripped up jeans...that's interesting to say the least
 
#3 ·
Once, I went to this small sears hardware store and was looking around when this guy walks up and asks what I was looking for. I casually asked him if they had any bandsaw blades, the small ones for portable bandsaws. He said no and then proceeded to walk up to the desk and tell his boss that I wanted to order a bandsaw blade. He didn't even have the common courtesy to ask me if I wanted to order one, just started asking for my money. Needless to say, I walked out of the store immediately and never returned.

I realize that they actually make you do certain things when you work as a salesperson, but if you don't listen and make poor assumptions about me, you will not be getting me as your customer.

I've also had some good salesperson experience. When I bought some new shoes at this old time shoe store recently, the guy was amazing. He really payed attention to me and read my body language. He was showing me this one pair and saw in my eyes that I didn't care for it and proceeded to ask me what we should try changing. A real understanding guy, let me experiment with different styles and find what I liked. I'll definitely be returning the next time I need some new shoes.
 
#4 ·
Oh I hate Sears. My dad for some reason keeps going there even though we've gotten HORRIBLE service every time. I only go there with him and only when I have to.

I guess it's our Se that influences the way we shop? We have to go and experience it before we know what will work for us.
 
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I needed gas and a refreshment, today, so I walked into the local Village Pantry and began to make a fountain soda.
Out of my peripherals, I see a smear of blue next to a couple around my age.
After a quick once-over, I realized it was a frozen "smoothie" spilled all over the counter and the guy was holding a cup, a cup I caught him holding blue-handed.
I shook my head, trotted around them to the napkins, and began mopping up the mess so the fifty-something behind the counter didn't have to neglect a line full of people to fetch a "wet floor" sign.
I'll admit that it felt really good to watch this kid, in disgust, the entire time.
I'll also admit that it would have made me feel better if he would'nt have avoided eye contact with me, throughout.

I'm buying a potato gun.
They'll have to pry it from my cold, dead, clorox scented fucking fingers.
 
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On Good Friday--the day commemorating the death of the Lord--me and two of my friends went out for beer. So, we met up at a restaurant, decided we didn't want to drink there and drove 45 minutes to a nearby town to drink blueberry beer at a microbrewery.

We had Blueberry beer, Raspberry beer, IPA, Peach beer, Guinness knockoff draught. (Note: It's also a lot funnier if you read that last sentence in Forrest Gump's voice). There was also a lot of hot ass there, too. Shitty DJ playing modern pop hits. Someone pooped in the urinal, if I'm not mistaken.

Just mulling over the details for congruency (Note: Remember--Si is a shadow function for me).

Anyway, the one dude (forget his name) that drove down was too drunk to drive, so the other guy that wasn't me had to drive. We get back to the restaurant parking lot, hop in our cars and drive off. So anyway, I'm following the one-dude-whose-name-I've-forgotten in my vehicle and we arrive at the main street of the town and the cops have it blocked off with maintenance vehicles in the background.

Well, the dude in his drunken stupor drives around the police vehicle blockading the road and the cop pulls him over. I drove away because I aim to be like Robert De Niro from Heat: Avoid the piggies. Just like, drop everything if things aren't looking so good, man.

I would have called to see if he got a DUI and free night in jail, but fuck him.
Wanna know why?

'Cause he's stupid.
 
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This is where being a judger comes in handy. I would have done all the car research ahead of time and walked into the dealership that had the car I wanted and told the salesman what I was going to pay for it, because I know how much they paid for it. It took me a year and a half to buy my last car (new). But I've had it since 2005 and no plans to replace it. It's a Volvo.
 
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#9 ·
Yeah, that's the smarter way to do it but it doesn't fit me. I have to have the physical interaction to make a decision. It's not the same through a computer.

And it also provided an interesting people watching experience. :D This guy was annoying but I have tons of funny stories from car shopping.
 
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