random observations

• sales people should not smoke. not on active duty and especially not covertly. because, as everyone except the smoker is aware, tobacco smoke clings to you and assaults the people you descend upon subsequent to your little guilty puff. 
• on the subject of sales people - sales people should not hover. young female sales representatives risk presenting themselves like little girls lacking polish and middle aged sales representatives appear rude and desperate. unobtrusiveness from half a store away is about ideal.
• little children should not be let loose in public places. specifically, they do not belong in a restaurant until they have mastered sitting-quietly-in-place-in-public for the duration of time a sit-down meal takes.