buttercup

Question: Have all the Borders folk been told to interact more with customers? I bought the Donnie Darko soundtrack last month, and the chattiness at the counter led to a quick "I'm married" smackdown because I thought the cashier was flirting with me. But then I went yesterday because B was looking for a book about trucks or some such thing, and found Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress, which I bought to wash away the memories of Nickel and Dimed and its horrible us/them attitude. I went to pay for it and the cashier was all, "This is a great book!" Is that true? Is it great? Or is it like the stores where they tell you what a wonderful bargain you're getting when you check out?

For the record, if I'm at the check-out counter, I'm not going to grab my purchases and run to stuff them back on the shelves where they came from if you don't tell me what an awesome item I'm buying.

Maybe I just buy really interesting things that absolutely need to be commented on. Heh.