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My branch of Toddler Bank has, for as long as I've been here, kept lollipops in wicker baskets at the teller windows and customer service desks. They're just a little goodie for any customer who wants one. I never paid much attention to them, myself: they were plain Dum-dum lollipops and I didn't much care for them.

A few weeks ago, we cleared out our entire stock: word from on high was to get rid of them: a customer had complained.

What kind of customer, I wondered, would complain about free lollipops?

I just found out.

Someone was insulted by the name of the lollipop brand.

My first thought: So ... ummm ... you identify with the label "Dum-dum", sir?

Sigh.

On the bright side, we now have Tootsie Pops! I like Tootsie Pops a lot better than Dum-dums anyway.

But we all know it's just a matter of time before someone is offended by the word "Tootsie".

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From:

lady-anne.livejournal.com

I think we recognized that we were kindred spirits.
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It's likely we've always been the way we are. He's un-corruptable and I'm un-teachable - so I doubt that we influenced each other.

Words are much like swords - with a point at each end. Maybe that's what led to the phrase "Curses, foiled again".

Thinking of you - Be good - The Lady, Anne

From:

kelloggs2066.livejournal.com

I'm glad to see you and Level Head found each other to be good to. :)

Lollipops: I'm afraid I'm inclined to agree with Shockwave. To mix a metaphor: There will always be the people who look a gift horse in the mouth, and find the glass half empty.

I guess the truth of the matter is that you need to realize that you can't please everyone, so you have to do what you can to please yourself and try to take as many with you as you can. If they see you're enjoying yourself following your own path, they'll be far more likely to enjoy following that path.

In the case of giving out candy, I'm heartened to see that they didn't give up the whole idea as a bad thing, but instead pressed forward on a new tack.

My bank gives out mints, and while I don't care for mint, I'd never think of complaining that my personal desires aren't fulfilled for free.

I'd much rather have chocolate. But, of course, "Free
Chocolate!!" signs would probably lead to a chocoholic
mob of biblical proprotions. ;)

Scott (Boldy mixing metaphors where no man has mixed metaphors before!) Kellogg

From:

rowyn

My boss used to keep a bowl of candy on her desk, just for employees (she has a back office and doesn't normally see customers). Some years, for Christmas or her birthday, I would give her "the gift that keeps on giving" -- twenty dollars' or so of bulk candy. I always got the kinds I liked: Reese's minatures, Hershey's Kisses, that sort of thing.

The chocolates never lasted anywhere *near* as long as the hard candies she stocked the rest of the year. That's why she normally kept mints and other hard candies. Being less loved is sometimes a *good* thing. :)

From:

rowyn

Hmm. I see LJ never did post the reply I tried to do to this yesterday. Now, what had I written ...?

Ah:

You've got to foil those curses, though, 'cause otherwise they might get all moldy or grow bacteria or something.

Then it'd be "curses, spoiled again."