A few months ago, now, my girl and I were in downtown New Britain, walking around. She likes to go into shops, so we went into one that was full of dollar store items on one side and furniture on the other.
She wanted to sit on a daybed she'd looked at the previous week, so we went over there and sat down.
Five minutes later, a Polish woman*, presumably one of the store owners, came over and asked us to leave.
"What are you doing," she said. (Said, not asked.)
"We're just sitting here," I said in that cheerful/polite tone that, if I'd ever been threatened with one, would get me out of a traffic ticket with a warning.
"Well, you can't do that. That's not for --" she said, and let her sentence go as she pointed us to the door.
No word yet on what the purpose of that particular daybed is.
*I mention that she's Polish because her demeanor and expectations for people visiting her store -- potential customers -- seemed particularly rooted in her culture. Whereas most Americans would consider sitting on the furniture a sign of a possible sale, or at least an opportunity for creating good word-of-mouth, eastern-European-Americans understand that this is the kind of nonsense no store owner should tolerate. Serious buyers don't sit. They pay.
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