Last night I went over to Crate & Barrel in order to do last minute shopping for a wedding today.  I went over to the new store at Mayfair Mall and was in the store for exactly one minute when a very nice woman came over and said "May I help you?"  I do believe that is the fastest that has ever happened to me in a store.  I'm guessing that they have some sort of camera at the door that sets off a special silent alarm when they see a man walk in unaccompanied by a woman.  This was a separate part of the Supreme Court ruling that created the Miranda Warning.  "If you don't have a girlfriend, a woman will be provided to you at the store's expense."

Don't believe me?  Walk into a Crate & Barrel sometime.  You will never see a man walking around by himself.  You only ever see women by themselves, or a woman walking around with a guy right behind her, looking defeated, and nodding at everything she points to.  Even when that woman works at the store, the man naturally follows after her.  It's the damnedest thing you've ever seen.