"Diamond Girl, you sure do shine. Diamond Girl, you sure do shine." (Seals & Croft, 1973)
Being a shop girl has its positive side. Many customers are a delight to wait on. Today, for example, one of our regular couples came in. He is a black preacher with a deep voice flavored with a Jamaican accent and a hearty laugh. She is all business, but she always has time to stop with him and talk for a moment before she heads to the Ladies Department. Their eyes always light up when they see me, and I am sure mine do, too.
He stays in my area and heads for our sales racks. He seems to take great delight in looking for the bargains, like he is a big game hunter pursuing elusive game. Carefully his eyes scan the room until he sees a likely clump of sales items where something really good might be hiding. He approaches the register with evident delight in his successful hunt, and then he stops to tell me about his children and about his family trips back to Jamaica that always seem to turn into missions trips.
Sometimes a customer will write a letter to the store manager complementing especially good service. Granted, we hear far more petty complaints than we do sincere compliments, but if we get three good letters or mystery shopper reports in a row, we win a diamond pin. I have earned my diamond pin five times in a row. I am a Diamond Girl.
Tonight the Diamond Girls were treated to a delicious dinner at one of our ritzier restaurants. The meal was served by waiters in suits! Shop girls don't often eat where waiters wear suits. The dinner was delicious: prime rib, pasta, chicken, sweet potato casserole, cranberry salad and more. But I think we just enjoyed sitting down together, relaxing and catching up. Shop girls don't often get to sit down, relax and catch up with each other. It was a real treat.
In Proverbs the Bibles says a good wife is worth more than rubies. I think a good shop girl is worth more than diamonds.
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