My experience goes as follows; walk into fly shop on busy Saturday and am ignored. I came back with my nine year old son on Tuesday afternoon and ask about an upcoming tying class. One of the people in the shop (tying instructor) spent half an hour going over the class and demonstrating things to me. The other worker struck up a conversation with my son and showed him all over the shop.

Vise, class, tools, equipment and I am now a regular customer. I also have a nine year old that asks to go by the fly shop all the time. My point is that if I had walked away after my first encounter I would have lost out on a valuable relationship with a good shop. Oh I also now have a nine year old that is learning to tie flys and fish with them. All in all I turned a negative into a positive.