No Rick, you're always like that.

I'm new to this guitar store stuff, but Jed, what you've said bugs you bugs me too. I go in and they'll assume I don't know anything and stuff a cheesey low-end guitar in my hands and expect me to love it. (I probably look like a cheesey low-end guitar person to them. If I wore a suit and a pile of makeup, I'd probably find myself holding a Breedlove or Bourgois.) I find that how I'm treated depends a lot on who I'm dealing with. The expert guitar nerds just let me wander around and hand me stuff I'm interested in. They know that if I see something I like, I'll eventually be back. The folks who know even less than I do are the ones who act like salespeople and actually expect me to be looking for something to buy right then and there. I can either get pissed off at them and leave (done that) or drive 'em nuts and just act like I normally do.

The good thing is that if they can't answer questions, they'll find the real guitar geeks and life will be better for me. Of course, I've been places where they just start making the answers up too.