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Have we met before?

Last year we moved to California from Texas. To setup our new home we used to go to Walmart, Target and many other retail stores. Being new to the area I smiled at most of the people who looked at me and found two totally different type of response. On one side most of the people specially from Indian origin didn't return smile back and on the other side many other people from Indian origin were too eager to become our friends and asked our phone number.

With in few days I found that most of the people who took my phone number were not interested in friendship but were interested in side business and wanted to help me with that. At first I thought may be the guy is coming up with some nice project for developing a software to work part time. But then everybody had just one thing common the business is in partnership with fortune 500 companies and were only willing to give more information once we meet.

Unfortunately I agreed to meet one person and found that person marketing me best way of making money by making members of Quixtar (more famous as Amway). After patiently listening to the person and respectfully declining the offer the person totally changed in behaviour and just left without even saying bye.

Then I started noticing and found that "Have we met before?", this is one of the punch lines used by Amway and Quixtar sellers. You will find them very often in Walmart, Big Lots, Fry's and many other places you go for shopping.

And these people are the reason of other people not talking to each other or returning smiles as they are afraid to be caught by Quixtar member.

I many times thought of making a T-Shirt with wording, "I am not Quixtar/Amway member!".

I really miss smile of those nice people who are not Quixtar members. I hope some day people here will start smiling at each other just for no reason.

Believe me Smile take lots of pains away.

posted by Abhay @ 10:15