Re: Chocolate Rage

The comments from the Chocolate Rage post made me curious and I visited the shop this morning. I have seen the place before but had never been in. I didn’t say anything to the man at the counter about why I was there. 

I just browsed wondering if he was going to yell at me. When he approached, he was not mean to me but I was struck by what he chose to talk about. He started in on a big lecture about Dallas women, especially stay-at-home moms, not appreciating his jewelry. He said in one sentence that Dallas women are too simple and in the next he mentioned how they are too gaudy. He made sure I knew that Dallas is not his valued customer base. His best customers, the ones who have excellent taste, are from New York and Florida and have found his store by word of mouth. He was certainly a bit nuts about his negative opinions of women in the Park Cities and Dallas. It was particularly weird because he had to know there was a huge chance I was from Dallas.

So, I casually mentioned that I live in the Park Cities and had just never stopped in. He continued with his anti-female Parkie and anti-Dallas theme. In fact he kicked it up a notch with, “You won’t find anything in here that stay-at-moms string together while their kids are at school.

He doesn’t care for us much, let’s put it that way.

Update: I checked in with the UPPD and got the following information:

There was a call at Cadeaux’s on Friday, January 25th.  According to the
police report it involved a disturbance between the store owner and a
customer. 

The disturbance involved a customer’s use of her cell phone while
handling merchandise in the store.  The owner was concerned about the
possibility of his merchandise being damaged and asked the lady not to
talk on the phone and handle the merchandise.  There was a scene.  The
final result was the customer being asked not to return to the business.