I've had just the opposite experience: getting the goods and checking out was so fast it made my head spin! I almost felt it went *too* fast, and felt a bit uncared for, but this was mostly my fault. I had read about the iPhone, decided which model I was after, strode into a moderately busy store knowing what I wanted, paused briefly to check out a new MacBook, and headed to the check out counter. I was handed what I asked for, checked out wirelessly from a hand held credit card processor, and walked out with my shiny new toy er, tool. All in way less than 15 minutes, total.
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A signature? Wha? Oh, this?
The monkeys have two weapons at their disposal, that will be most difficult to overcome:
1. Fear, the biggest. The women are scared of them, so arming them with sticks or even guns won't work. Once the monkeys learned the fear factor, they became emboldened, purely learned behavior. They'd easily bluff their way past a few frightened women brandishing sticks.
2. Government protection. While many have commented that they can get around this, the people involved are unlikely to contradict the law. See #1.
And really, "sexual harassment?" Please. I think the monkeys just learned, again through experience, that certain gestures created more fearful retreats in the women than others, so they adopted these gestures as a workable tool to get to the goal.
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I've had just the opposite experience: getting the goods and checking out was so fast it made my head spin! I almost felt it went *too* fast, and felt a bit uncared for, but this was mostly my fault. I had read about the iPhone, decided which model I was after, strode into a moderately busy store knowing what I wanted, paused briefly to check out a new MacBook, and headed to the check out counter. I was handed what I asked for, checked out wirelessly from a hand held credit card processor, and walked out with my shiny new toy er, tool. All in way less than 15 minutes, total. --- A signature? Wha? Oh, this?
The monkeys have two weapons at their disposal, that will be most difficult to overcome: 1. Fear, the biggest. The women are scared of them, so arming them with sticks or even guns won't work. Once the monkeys learned the fear factor, they became emboldened, purely learned behavior. They'd easily bluff their way past a few frightened women brandishing sticks. 2. Government protection. While many have commented that they can get around this, the people involved are unlikely to contradict the law. See #1. And really, "sexual harassment?" Please. I think the monkeys just learned, again through experience, that certain gestures created more fearful retreats in the women than others, so they adopted these gestures as a workable tool to get to the goal.