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This hobby store snobbiness is a total mystery to me. I don't understand why (some) hobby shop people act this way. As a kid, I'd often feel like I was treated like a silly little kid who didn't know anything. Now, at 29, I recently went into a hobby shop and couldn't find their Athearn stock. I asked where their Athearn locomotives were. The guy replied, "well, what do you want?". He was totally irritated. Then he proceeded to tell me in a totally talking down manner, "Our cheap plastic locomotives are over here..." - referring to $100 plastic locomotives, then finally to the blue box Athearns. After approaching the counter with about $90 worth of stuff, I asked for a kadee coupler height gauge. He nearly threw a tantrum for making him look for it (he was quite dissapointed that I didn't know the kadee part number off hand). In the shop's defense, another guy behind the counter was looking at me in an apologetic way, as if to say, "sorry... we don't like him any more than you do..." Great shop, bad employee. No offense to anyone out there, but I think some, and yes I said *some* of these super duper die hard model railroaders have no life, and act like you're nothing if you're not dumping half your salary into model railroading like they are. The very next weekend I had a totally pleasurable experience at another shop - where it was as if the owner just wanted to chat model railroading all day with me. He just got a returning customer for sure.
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