What single thing at faire hurls you off into the depths of rage?

[Rowan MacD]

   Good point Merlin.   Good business manners have just about disappeared.  
  "You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him." ~Leo Aikman    

Something that I have noticed in our shoppe, this year especially.   It doesn't hurl me off into a rage or anything, but...
We try to make a point of greeting everyone that enters.  
About half of the patrons don't even acknowledge the greeting.
The other half parrot back exactly what we say verbatim.  (Hello.  Welcome.)  

I call it the WalMart syndrome.  People are becoming so inured to being mechanically greeted by someone who is obviously just parroting what they were told to say, that they just tune out the "Hi, welcome to the  shoppe" or "Hi, how are you?' automatically.  

[Sitara]

I despise when men think that just because I am serving them beer and am wearing a low cut bodice that gives them permission to shove their hand down my top to give me a tip. I am sorry, but no. I am worth FAR more than a dollar and coping a feel is NOT included in your purchase. Then they have the audacity to get angry when I tell them in no uncertain terms how I feel about their actions.

[Merlin the Elder]

Once at Scarby I purchased a beer and the server had a number of bills in her bosom. She raised up as if inviting me to place my tip there, but I asked "May I?" before I did so...  I found myself uncomfortable with it after the fact... I guess I'm too shy...

[Captain Teague]

Been there. Last one TOLD me to place the tip there. I keep several tip bills folded to hand out, so I gingerly placed it there and no skin touched skin at all.

Guess I am too much of a gentleman. 


(Just don't tell the Evil Darklord Society that, I would hate to have to re-apply. Sacrifices are so messy. )

[Archer]

Heh, at yon home faire's smoker some of the wenches would gaze at you as if insulted,  if you decline to insert the tip with ye teeth and then fail to make a few motorboat sounds as ye withdraw from the mission.  Truth. 

Now, mind you they do expect the tip to be a bit larger if ye make those motorboat sounds over an extended time period.  There can be a catch to all good deeds.  Some say, no good deed goes unpunished. 

[Kiss-me-Kate]

Badmouthing another vendor is an indication that you aren't confident about your own product, in my opinion. I will not purchase anything from anyone that I hear making negative comments about another.  It's the same standard that I use with politicians...

Agreed. 
Maybe it is a "Minnesota Nice" thing but, if we don't carry it, we are NOT afraid to suggest another vendor at our Festival. 
When looking for a specific boot, we will show you on the map where it is located. 
Same with slippers. 
"Willing Soles does not offer slippers, but Nomadic Dreams near the Crown Stage do and they start at 45 dollars."   (I specfically asked the owner.)
 
Just because we can't supply the customer with what they desire, does not mean I am above helping another vendor out.  I know Heather from Nomadic Dreams directs people our way. 
It is the classy thing to do.  I even do it in my "real" job.

[Kiss-me-Kate]

I despise when men think that just because I am serving them beer and am wearing a low cut bodice that gives them permission to shove their hand down my top to give me a tip. I am sorry, but no. I am worth FAR more than a dollar and coping a feel is NOT included in your purchase. Then they have the audacity to get angry when I tell them in no uncertain terms how I feel about their actions.

Oh, I would LOVE to watch you tell the offender off.  I remember Muffin had some trouble with this as well, and I was ready to kick the losers tukus on her behalf.   

[kcdcchef]

that settles it. no more visible boobs at renfest. we'll have to settle for overweight middle aged men in ill fitting tights instead.

[Captain Teague]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lUjhEHlh7s

[DT_Masters]

This camera looked like it was pretty old.  She had it hanging from one of those cheap, thin plastic straps like the type that came with the cameras back in the 70's 80's.  It was so short, the camera only hung to her mid chest.   Can't have been comfortable around the neck for a rig that large.   With so many professional photographers around, she stuck out like a sore thumb.  She just looked....odd.  

That's an interesting view of things. Of the Renaissance Paparazzi, I wonder who of us is "professional" and who isn't? Me, strictly amateur. Of course, in the recent years, with digital pocket technology, the amount of cameras at faire has just exploded. One year, it just those like me with their SLR's, the next thin digitals galore.

"I have never seen so many cameras back in the past! I told the time council that this would happen if they put travel technology on the open market, but did they listen to me? NO-OOOO!"

To me, the professional photographer that sticks out like a sore thumb? The one who isn't in garb.
 

[Rowan MacD]

"I have never seen so many cameras back in the past! I told the time council that this would happen if they put travel technology on the open market, but did they listen to me? NO-OOOO!"
 

 

[maeven]

I don't really think this makes me angry or anything like that, but I have had quite a few angry wives/girlfriends give me death glares after they see their husband, ahem, looking at the "upper area" of my garb. Like I said, it doesn't make me angry, but a part of me does want to tell them, "Look where you are... there are bosom aplenty! There are way more women out here that look way more gorgeous than I do that look GOOD in what they are wearing! See that corset shop over there? Go in there. Check out what they have. They'll get you all set up and you'll look 20 shades of foxy!" LOL...

[MrHyde]

I have posted this thought elsewhere but what has me in a rage lately is more directed at faires and the change to go to family venues.  Does everything have to be PC and based on Disneyland in America?  Don't get me wrong I love my country and will gladly take a bullet to defend her but come on.  Faires with family days where the entertainment has to be at the PG level that day, wenches that give a kiss removed from faires to be replaced by goofy kid shows.  There is Disneyland, Six Flags, Chuck E Cheese, etc for families to take kids to.  If the faire offends people with children don't bring the children to the faire.  Ok.  Off the soap box.

Huzzah!

[kcdcchef]

yeah i'm with ya there. my home faire, KCRF always opens columbus day monday, and it's a school day basically, and SO ANNYONING, all the good shows are so darned boring that day. like you said, take the kids to chuck e cheese!!!!

[MrHyde]

If you want to take your kids to a Renaissance faire don't expect Chuck E Cheese.  There is no cannon fire at Chuck E Cheese