Word: salesclerk
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...truth universally acknowledged that Nordstrom stores have wrapped up the title for top-of-the-line customer service. They will take back returns with a smile, hail you a cab and send out a salesclerk and tailor with armloads of clothes if you're too busy to go shopping. If it's footwear you're after, Nordstrom's vast shoe sections boast up to 150,000 pairs from sizes 4 to 21. "I really like Nordstrom," says Kelly Chandler, 28, a marketing specialist at a Seattle radio station who has shopped at the fashion retailer's flagship store since...
This matter-of-factness was inevitable: the sheer passage of time dilutes horror. The earliest AIDS deaths were accompanied by roaring panic. My friend Eric, a stage manager and haberdashery salesclerk, died in '86. His extreme weight loss and hollow-cheeked pallor gave him a look of near theatrical decay, and his paranoia and memory loss were not then recognized as symptoms of dementia. He was surprisingly granted a luxurious room in a Manhattan hospital, with a uniformed guard at the door; we later discovered that the staff was being extra cautious because another AIDS patient had jumped from...
...conversation grinds to a brief, awkward halt, then takes a turn into the wilderness-into the thicket of this young couple's most intimate concerns and darkest fears. Patti tells Laura, a 29-year-old department store salesclerk, that in her opinion it is O.K. to take birth-control pills on the advice of her doctor to help with pms. Then John, coordinator of family ministry at St. Augustine, says, "Is either one of you jealous...
...pouring tea for quake victims. She looked older than in the photo, but when Tachio showed her the picture, she recognized herself by the striped pajama trousers and black-and-white jacket she had been wearing when the photo was taken. The woman, Emiko Deguchi, 47, a department-store salesclerk, agreed to tell Tachio her story...
Meanwhile, a Saks Fifth Avenue salesclerk reports selling a pair of Lauren red plaids to a 64-year-old grandmother who plans to wear them, thighs flashing, with a mini-skirt. That's more like it. Still, fads being what they are, Grandmother might well be advised to save her panty hose, God knows...