I've been asked to get things off shelves in stores more than once.
I thought it was because I'm tall.
I didn't realize that it was racism/sexism.
"I tell this story – I mean, even as the first lady – during that wonderfully publicized trip I took to Target, not highly disguised, the only person who came up to me in the store was a woman who asked me to help her take something off a shelf. Because she didn't see me as the first lady, she saw me as someone who could help her. Those kinds of things happen in life. So it isn't anything new. Now had the woman addressed her as "Your Royal Highness", kneeled and kissed her hand prior to her request, everything would have been fine.