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24-06-2005, 12:41 AM

(Dick Adams) wrote:

DigitalVinyl wrote:
"Dennis Edward" wrote:
"Vox Humana" wrote in message

I went to HD today. Same thing. Nearly everything was wilted
BADLY, or just plain dead.

I went to HD a few weeks ago, and asked about a problem with my
tomatoes -- numerous holes in the leaves. The salescritter told
me in no uncertain terms that it was caused by watering in sunny
weather -- the drops of water cause lensing and burn the leaves.
Uh-huh. I did a little research and discovered the *real* problem
-- flea beetles.

I won't be asking them for advice again....

You expect a lot for a little over minimum wage and low prices,
don't you?

I suppose that sales person is supposed to study every plant they
sell and every bug, disease and bad human practice inflicted on
each one so they are prepared to play plant doctor for the public.

Reads like sarcasm to me.

For humorous purposes yes, but not totally. You see this expectation
for others to be a somewhat difinitve source of knoweldge because they
wear a name tag that says they should. People expect doctors to just
know it all. TO be an expert diagnostician, know every drug, every
side effect, evey interaction, know your history and recall every
visit, to read every page in your file and instantly digest it and
just know it. To know how a foot problem can manifest symptoms in
other areas, even though they aren't a foot specialist. Meanwile most
doctors are purely mediocre, like a salesperson who rings you up but
isn't particularly sparkling at their job. Sure he can blindly write
prescriptions and advice for all the most comon ailments which covers
60% of his patients, but the other stuff he'll flounder about on.

the bell cuurve says something like 65% of all samples are purely
mediocre-average. 15 are good/better, 15 are worse, and the remain 5%
are split between very good and very bad. Now we all hope that
something is in place to get rid of the very bad, but we all know
somehow they sneak through.

I wxcept people who don't know to say I don't know.

I accept that people may take a best guess or actually believe they
are saying something true. People repeat urban legends swearing to god
they know somebod who knows somebody that it happened to. People lie.
Especially when they feel inferior and unprepared. Like an untrained
salesperson who is just workign this lousy job before they find a job
that's worthwhile that they might care about (I'd say that's a good
40-50% of workers, easy).

Dick

DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email)
Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY, 1 mile off L.I.Sound
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