could i get some help here?

[superbad.livejournal.com]

What do you say when you walk into a store/the bank and there is no one at the otdel where you need service?

I think I heard someone say "Можно кого–то!?" once at the khoztovary store. Is that right? Is there another way?

My impulse is to say "Um... Hello!!" - so can you just say "алло!!" ?

Spaseebs.

Comments

[bekesha.livejournal.com]

it's something personal then :-) - "але" people usually say when they pick up a phone, it's not rude at all
when you come into a room and say "але" it's like "can you hear me?/are you there?"

it can only be rude if you say it in the aggressive way - but anything can be rude in that way :-)

[g-l-k.livejournal.com]

Well, tastes apparently differ:)
I just tried to imagine a person coming into a shop and trying to get noticed by shouting АЛЁ!!
To my taste - definitely bad manners, to the point of being insolent.