Suspicion And Other Fun Games

You may or may not be surprised to learn that shopkeepers are not to be trusted.
They may be distorting the truth to get more money out of you. Therefore it is natural to treat any attempt to sell you anything with utmost suspicion.
Apparently they may also be deliberately hiding items of stock from you, so that you may in fact leave without spending any money. The reasons for this are unclear. Therefore it is natural that when told that the store you are in doesn't sell the item you need, you will continue to search the shelves, closely inspecting each and every product that looks even minutely similar.
They may even lie about the kinds of things they sell. They will dare to tell you that their electronics store does not in fact sell items such as curtain hooks, 'No Parking' signs, plumbing equipment and suchlike. Therefore it is natural that you will argue with them, informing them that your friend/brother/son/schizophrenic voice assured you that you could find the product here. Of course this informant knows a lot better than the guy that works there everyday.

It's amazing what those damn sneaky shopkeepers get up to in order to annoy you for no apparent reason.