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You were a good shopper this year, you purchased everything well in advance to avoid the traffic jams and long lines at your local mall, yet somehow due to an oversight, you were forced to come out on Christmas Eve and exchange a sweater that you bought two sizes too small. It took you an hour to find a parking spot and fifteen minutes to find the appropriate size, and now you are faced with a long line and a seemingly apathetic sales associate standing between you and an evening by the fire. She is moving slow and has an attitude that would trump both Ebenezer Scrooge and The Grinch on a bad night. Before you give this girl a piece of your tired and stressed out mind, take two seconds and remember that her sour mood has nothing to do with you trying to make an exchange and get a price adjustment without a receipt, and everything to do with the effects of a down economy on her ability to escape adolescence and move into the adulthood she was promised when she got her degree. Read the full article...
