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Composition Exercise 7

Composition Exercise 7. 7.Work as a shop assistant. 1.During the summer I had the unforgettable experience of working temporarily as a shop assistant in the dress department of a large store.

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Composition Exercise 7

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  1. Composition Exercise 7 7.Work as a shop assistant

  2. 1.During the summer I had the unforgettable experience of working temporarily as a shop assistant in the dress department of a large store. • 2. The first ladies to arrive in the mornings were those who had come up to town in order to spend the whole day shopping.

  3. 3. However much they liked a dress, they never liked the idea of buying oneat the first shop they had comeinto and would ask me if it could be put aside for them. • 4. After going round endless other shops, they would eventually reappear at our shop just before closing time and they wouldbe extremely irritated should I have sold the dress to another customer in the meantime.

  4. 5. Then there were the women who, on beingapproached and offered assistance would reply that they were ‘just looking’ and in the process of ‘just looking’ would knockdown several dresses which they could not be bothered to hang up on the rails again. • 6. Another type of customer was the one whose only interest in life was to try oncountless dressesand stand gazing in admiration at her reflection in the mirror, but who never had any intention of buying anything.

  5. 7. Even with the more serious customers, the business of selling could be a tedious one for so many women spent agesnarrowing their choice down to two dresses and then could never quite decide which one they preferred. • 8. They sometimes turned to you for advice, and you had to tell them how wellone dress suited them, when if you had been honest, you would have advised them against buying either of the two dresses.

  6. 9. I hated being involved in the hypocrisy of salesmanship, but I consoled myself by thinkingthat I could scarcely be morehypocritical than the husbands of some of my customers. • 10. Their impatience to get back homefor their evening meal was usually such that they would approve of the most outrageous garments, yet I was always glad to serve the women whose husbandscamewith them, because at least I knew that I would be able to make a quick sale.

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