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Oh Gawd Joe
How rude! He does sound like a little "hottie" though...There are few colognes that I can stand to smell on men. Like when one of my dates feels he has to take a bath in a certain scent it makes my head hurt after an hour or so. I really like Laurens "Safari" it does something to my endorphins (spelling) and for some reason I tend to lose control. Women who feel they need to take baths in perfume are just as bad...Oh Lord I always end up sitting next to one of those on the airplane...
posted by
Offy
on January 30, 2007 at 1:36 AM
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Lol, very entertaining Joe Love
Great character descriptions - I visualized the salesclerk clearly and he
was haughty!...:)
posted by
Katray2
on January 29, 2007 at 10:34 PM
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joe love
nothing wrong with a signature scent - wear what you like :) I enjoyed reading this, so funny.
posted by
mneme
on January 29, 2007 at 2:31 AM
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Hi Joe Love
It's such a pleasure visiting your blog. The humour of the incidents are heightened to their worthy glory with your glorious style of writing. Great.
posted by
Bhaskar.ing
on January 27, 2007 at 8:47 PM
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Joe_Love
He probably was just jealous because you looked younger than him and smelled better.
posted by
TAPS.
on January 27, 2007 at 4:43 PM
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Joe,
I must be getting old - because I like that eau de toilette too! My former boyfriend used to wear it (and I often used it, when he was not watching) - but then I was only in my thirties... long time ago!
posted by
Nickie-Fleming
on January 27, 2007 at 1:56 PM
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OOOOOHHHH that's rude!!
I would have made him refund my purchase for that comment! I wonder what kind of "charm" school these upscale retail clerks come from? Maybe he was intimidated by you? I hope the rest of your trip was much better
posted by
Flumpystalls3000
on January 27, 2007 at 9:33 AM
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Joe Love
LOL! You have decsribed that scene so well, I have played it through in my mind several times, bitchy tones of voice, arched eyebrows and all...and chuckled every time! And being envious too! The guy really had a thirty-inch waist? I want a thirty-inch waist again!!! Well, no lunch for me today...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 27, 2007 at 7:46 AM
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joe
it's humourous yet entertaining.
posted by
richinstore
on January 27, 2007 at 6:06 AM
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Joe Love
funny story... what does the cologne smell like? I just got a new one- BLV Blue- described as having the scents of chocolate, wisteria, and vodka! It smells wonderful!
posted by
Nanaroo
on January 26, 2007 at 6:02 PM
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Retail guys are very pushy.
posted by
afzal50
on January 26, 2007 at 5:59 PM
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are all cologne salespeople bitchy like that?
I bought some before christmas and had a very similar experience.
posted by
Blue_feathers
on January 26, 2007 at 12:15 PM
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Still receive calls from the pharmacies?
Next time you get a cake from your neighbor, sprinkle it with strawberry-flavored pink pills and give it to the salesman as a thank-you-gift (anonymously of course)!
posted by
Helen_Bach
on January 26, 2007 at 12:05 PM
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Your cologne salesguy sounds like one who used to work in my office...
He gave us all good advice on what was in style. He had to give up on me, eventually, because I'm a bit fashion challenged. Like yesterday, when I realized the little sweater-jacket I was wearing had been a favorite for the office -- in 1992.
posted by
Pat_B
on January 26, 2007 at 8:26 AM
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Wow. Nothing like an obnoxious retail guy,
I did the Christmas temporary retail sales guy thing in Atlanta once, and it was hell -- precisely because most everyone was, in fact, that obnoxious.
posted by
strat
on January 26, 2007 at 8:13 AM
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Hmmmm???
Don't they now have the Green Polo Bottle on exhibit in the Cologne and Perfume Museum of History???
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on January 26, 2007 at 7:42 AM
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I loved Polo in the green bottle.
I guess I could be his father too if I started having kids when I was 5.
posted by
SuccessWarrior
on January 26, 2007 at 7:37 AM
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How old are you Joe?
You can't be much older than the salesperson. OK, I have always figured you were around my age group or a bit younger.
I LOVE Polo on a man, always have; always will. I'll have to check out the Black-Black.
You know that jerk made a commission off of your sale. Take it back, get a refund and buy from someone else...that way he loses his commission. 
posted by
bel_1965
on January 26, 2007 at 7:27 AM
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HAHAHAHHAHA, Joe, this one made me laugh throughout...you'd make a
great straight guy, but you didn't hear it from me.
(I liked Polo back in the day, too.)
posted by
Ariala
on January 26, 2007 at 4:45 AM
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Joe Love
That? I've smelled that! I like the
original better! When I was in junior high, all the little boys used to bathe in the original. I love it, but of course, I was just a walking hormone then, looking for love in all the wrong places, led by my nose instead of my mind.
posted by
Presley
on January 26, 2007 at 3:06 AM
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You have to laugh
I was called "Uncle" by someone in their forties while on holiday.
posted by
Tanga
on January 26, 2007 at 1:54 AM
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Yikes! what a jerk! Hope he doesn't get a commission!
-^..^- Bo says slap him!
posted by
Whacky
on January 26, 2007 at 12:59 AM
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is "black - black" the best name ralph lauren's people could come up
with? even "this year's black" or "back in black" or "black-out", god, anything but "black - black". at least it smells nice. does it smell much different from polo?
i was once given a gift of french perfume (they really do know how to make perfume!) and not only can i not find it in canada, i can't find anything similar. it was just so...feminine. soft and not over-powering.
posted by
fourcats
on January 25, 2007 at 11:48 PM
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