A woman walks into a Honda dealership...

On a cold snowy Thursday afternoon, a tall asian woman walks into a Honda dealership.

I walk into the show room, go directly to the Honda HRV, get inside, and start checking out the interior of the car.

On my way in, I see the show room is pretty empty, no other customers in sight. There are a few male staff at their desks, doing various paperwork like things.  I walk by the female receptionist, she says hello, I reciprocate.

After a few minutes, I am surprised at the lack of attention I am getting, then I see the receptionist come to me, she asks "do you need any help?"

I respond that I am interested in the HRV. She says if I need any help, she can get one of the sales people. I say OK, she goes away.

I continue to checkout the car, I get out, open up the rear seat, try out the magic seats. They are actually really cool, why doesn't every SUV/CUV have them? They are so useful!

Anyway, I get into the back seat, check out the leg room, head room, etc.

I am out again, checking out the trunk and what not.  I take a moment to look up.  While I am all for low pressure sales, but I've been in the dealership for nearly 10 minutes, with no other customers in sight, I'd figure even out of boredom, one of the salesman would've come over to me to chat by now.

Nop, all the guys are, doing something. I am not sure what it is they are doing, but they are avoiding eye contact and looking busy. Oh also, while walking around the car, the showroom etc, the female receptionist is the ONLY person who has even acknowledged my presence. Did I wear my Harry Potter invisibility cloak? Apparently it doesn't work on women, I must make a note of this.

I look at the car more, getting into the passenger side, checking out the sticker details etc..
Finally I am bored, I have specific questions that I cannot answer myself (or else I would have), so I go back to the receptionist lady. She is talking to a customer on the phone, but she tells me "be with you in a momemnt".

A few minutes she was off the phone, and comes to me, I tell her I have specific questions. She responded she will get one of the sales reps.

The rest of the experience was pretty standard, nothing terribly good or bad to report. I've already done a bunch of research on the HRV, so I had very specific questions, which it turns out the sales person couldn't answer, and even his manager didn't seem to be certain.

The salesman who helped me was nice and friendly. We took the car for a test drive, he was surprised I knew a lot about the car already. I told him, I am an engineer, it's what I do.