This is a great town.  However, I have never met a more narrow minded abusive group of people in all my life.  I work as a sales rep and have done so all over the country.  I have never encountered the problems with people i have in other areas of the country that I have in Memphis.  Business owners are rude, hostile, narrow minded and expect me as a consumer to purchase from them.  I too am a human being and am working to make a living.  We as a city wonder why people are leaving and taking their money elsewhere.  When business owners cannot treat people with basic human respect and mistreat vendors as a nuissance and not as a business partner and potentially as a customer.  When I am in a business working I treat my customers with respect and dignity. However, when a business owner abuses me they can bank on it that I won't use them in the future and as any other consumer I will tell everyone how I was treated.  A word to business owners.  You may want to think twice about abusing that pesky vendor that comes into your businesses. not only are we trying to eek out a living we are also customers.  I have never met a more hostile and abusive group of people until i moved to the midsouth.