Apparently it's one genre per customer...

I was out and about Saturday afternoon after seeing a movie and decided to go and look for some Cd's and books to lay my grubby hands on and by grubby I mean obsessively clean. The same thing happened in both stores and then I thought about all the times it has happened and decided to ask others to see if it's just me. I assume it isn't but you never know.

Anyway, it went like this, I browse for a while, make my selections and take them up to hand over my cash in an empowering display of capitalism. The person on the other end of the transaction feels the need to comment on what I've chosen to buy. Not in a "Your taste sucks and I mock you" way but in a "Your taste is strange to me and I feel the need to say something to get you to say something so that I can better understand" kind of way. In both stores this is and it's not like this is the first time.

Does this happen to anyone else? Have you ever been questioned or had a comment dropped because you bought things that, on the surface, may not seem to be of the same sort? Most people I know (granted this particular group isn't exactly the ideal control group) enjoy lots of things across many genres and find absolutely nothing strange about that but the repeated comments and questions sometimes make me wonder if that's an aberration and not at all the norm.

Almost forgot, the movie was Hot Fuzz. Go see it. Now.