The tulips are beautiful, as are you. Vote with your feet and your mouth. Let others know of the shocking way you were treated and in future bug the shit out of him in his shitty little shop. Years ago, I went into my local yarn shop asking for some advice about a pattern I was having a problem with. (Turned out there was a typo in it, I wasn't an idiot). Well the woman who owns it was so rude to me, I have never spent a cent there in the last sixteen years. I do go in, every week when I'm at the shops and look at all the yarn, then I do the patterns, then I peruse (at great leisure) the buttons, lace and so on. Then I walk out. Every week. It drives her totally batshit, and makes me feel so much better.