Maku'u Market Observations

[Howard]

I think that Lee DeJongh's advice is very good, but when he says that deciding whether to touch a customer is "very tricky," that is an understatement of the difficulty involved. I know that Alice hates having to deal with the unnecessary pain caused by some stranger innocently touching an arthritic shoulder, and many other people also have disabilities which are invisible to a stranger. The probability of some such disability is greater with older customers, but far from unknown in young adults or even in some cases children. It is one thing to touch someone you know, but much safer to avoid touching strangers unless you are really sure that doing so is okay with them. After all, the last thing you want do to a customer is to hurt him or her.

Howard