#Repost @mistymacallister with @get_repost ・・・ I grew up in communist Romania. Then people got tired of communism, there was a revolution, and then we joined the capitalist world. Here's how the beginnings of capitalism looked like in Romania, as I remember it. This was around year 2000. 🍒 A friend of mine asks me if I'd go shopping for jeans with her. No. Must study. Test tomorrow. Ok. She goes alone. She comes to me an hour later in tears. ME: What happened? Did someone die? MY FRIEND: I told you I went to buy myself jeans. There's this new store and I wanted to check it out. It looks very nice, like in movies. There are shelves and the clothes are arranged nicely in the shelves. It's very pretty. So I went in and picked up a pair of jeans from a shelf, and the clerk, this mean looking guy, starts yelling at me: Don't touch anything! You're going to make a mess of the display. And I said: But I want to buy a pair of jeans. How am I supposed to buy them if I can't look at them? And the guy says: Get out! If you don't get out, I'll call the police. Suffice it to say, my friend was very upset. She felt like this guy treated her like a thief. MY FRIEND says: This can't be allowed. I can't be treated like this. There has to be some kind of consumer protection office where I can go and complain. ME: Consumer protection? Really? There's such a thing? MY FRIEND: I don't know. My sister worked on a cruise ship and she told me they have things like that in normal countries. Come with me and let's find it. I don't want to go alone. ME: Ok. But you know there's no such place. So we went around town, and searched, and found a building that said something on it - I don't remember what, frankly, but my friend thought that could be it. So we waited in front of the building to see who goes in and out - some middle-aged women who looked like they had problems of their own. MY FRIEND: Do you think anyone will care even if I complain? ME: No. And we left and went back to our lives. #mistymacallister #nocustomerservice #igworldclub_women #wearethepeoplemag #hotisthenewblack













