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Originally Posted by ratbastid
You're aware that asking "Even the height part?" was your critical mistake, right?
Look. I've worked in sales. I've sold products that were, let me be blunt, pure shite.
You don't walk up to your prospective customer and say, "Hello sir! I wonder if I could interest you in the exchange of your hard earned cash dollars in trade for this product which is, let me be blunt, pure shite." At least not if you feel like eating, you don't.
And if in the course of the conversation they CATCH ON that it's, let me be blunt, pure shite, you spin the shite as a positive. "Sure it's shite, but it's colorful! And shiny! The ladies love shiny colorful shite, sir!"
Being 5'5" isn't a problem, and you "shouldn't be self conscious" about it, he said knowing damn well it wouldn't make any difference. But at the VERY least you don't need to be pointing it out to them.
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I worked in sales for 6 months at one of the former major electronics stores. I was a terrible salesman. There was something wrong with every product that I knew about. "...though, this home stereo system doesn't have a rewind for the CD player", "...this printer is known for its paper jams.", etc. Which I was told not to do, but I just felt so bad for selling junk, haha. Oddly enough, I got employee of the months my 3rd month there because a lot of the customers told my manager that I was extremely helpful (even though I got the least amount of sales compared to the people who started the same month as me)
. But yeah, I had a problem of telling them all the good stuff and not letting it end there, I had to make sure that they knew the faults too. Extremely bad habit, one which I'm trying to work on, but sometimes I just forget I do it.
But yeah, It was a mistake and it wasn't a mistake, haha. The mistake part was me thinking that she was missing something, because I was thinking, "This is too good to be true, this is too easy, she's definitely missing something...", so I figured just to make sure this was reality, I'd confirm with her and she'd be like, "Yeah, I love short guys, they are cute!". But unfortunately, I was right the first time, haha.
The non-mistake is that if I didn't ask her, and we would have talked for a few days and then met in person, she'd be like, "Om-fucking-shit... I thought you were tall!", haha. I mean, if she's not attracted to short guys, that's fine with me, everyone has their preference I suppose. But it's good in a way that we got that out of the way without wasting both of our time.
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Anyways, I think I made a social effort today. Was walking to the classroom and a classmate was too, and going towards the classroom we noticed that none of the lights were on. I looked at him and said, "Kinda dark in there, huh?". He didn't say anything back. I don't think he even moved a muscle in his mouth. I guess it was a dumb thing to say though. But failure is okay for now, I'll get better at this with time!