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Originally Posted by ilovetv
Amen.
If people need more social contact, which many do, TV is perfectly designed for socialization and conversation at 3 town squares and dozens of beautiful recreation centers where a person can go and chat all day long, with different people every day of the week.
Of course a cashier has to be friendly and courteous, but they should be doing their job, first, for all customers in line, not just the needier one.
A grocery store, bank or post office line is a place of business, not a social hall.
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If some get the same cold shoulder that my sister-in-law and I did at the rec center(s), I can see why some stay away and visit with clerks, etc. She loves to play Pinochle so I took her over to play (I love to play, too) when she got here to visit. Reluctantly, they agreed to "let" us play but were anything but friendly. They definitely were not happy for the intrusion to their weekly gathering, even though it was and still is published in the Recreation News on Thursdays. You would have thought that we were there to run them out. Needless to say, this did not make a good impression on her of our Villages or me, since we had not been here very long. Unfortunately, too many people are not very social, but very cliquish. As one poster stated, some will not even bother to say hello when greeted the same.
Solution: We never went again and I came home and rounded up others from one of our clubs to play. We have a great time and anyone is welcome. We will even teach you if you don't know how. The more, the merrier for us. We just want people who want to have a good time for a few hours and leave negativity behind. We take turns hosting.
Maybe some of the chit-chatters have had similar experiences.