Tourists...

Something has come to my attention at the music store. The fact that many of these foreigners like to pretend as if they know more about music than we (the people who work there) do. My area of specialty is Rock, classical and vocals. I would love it if every customer who asked for my assistance wanted something out of those categories but of course that does not often happen. No matter how strange a request may be I always try to look for it. Occasionally I ask the customer for help. Something like: How do you spell that name? or What kind of music does he play?. Usually a customer responds in a helpful way. But some not. One particular woman responded to the latter question with "He is one of South Africa's best musicians." Let me state that it is a name that I had never heard of. No one else has ever asked for him before or since. I know South African rock and I know it well. Just because I don't know every obscure musician that South Africa has ever produced does not mean that I no nothing of SA music. I wish these foreigners would leave their snobbishness at home.