Wondering if anyone has ever done the wild thing in a fish store does not make me a pottyhead.
And I did say earlier that happening into a conversation with another fish store patron, sharing information and enthusiasm, as Menagerie did, is great.
I think one thing clear is that fish stores frequently (by no means always...just often) have overworked or not-fully-informed or not-fully-interested staff. The person that suddenly came up and appreciated how hard it is to catch rummy-nose tetras...the patron that recognised I view salt-water fishkeeping as rocket science and then tried to persuade me otherwise... novice fishkeepers (like me) need a lot of guidance and I bet most novices are kind of going it alone. Family and friends do not share or fully understand the novice's interest. The novice is in the fish store privately feeling like s/he is less knowledgeable than all the other patrons floating around the store. Suddenly another human being strikes up a conversation or answers a question AND freely shares information...it's the best!
However, if someone is in a fish store to get fish AND that same someone is looking for love in life, any cute anyone of the desired gender coming up and sharing excitement about a hobby and being warm and friendly...someone lookin' for love can easily construe that as at least a possible opening. Nothing we can do about that.
If an attractive warm interesting someone handed me wrote down a website so that I might learn more about the hobby of fishkeeping, and it had never occurred to me such sites might exist, AND I was lookin' for love, I might be confused.
Life is like this. We work it out every day.