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Wellie Wishers
Feb. 24th, 2016 03:29 amI knew I was forgetting something yesterday but I couldn't remember what it was. Yeah, it was the pictures of the Wellie Wishers.
Behold:
( Pictures thisaway. )
Behold:
( Pictures thisaway. )
Feb. 24th, 2016
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Feb. 24th, 2016 11:26 amUgh. I loathe it when the boy's laundry arrives for a variety of reasons. One, he always waits until he's got three tons of it and he always overloads the machine. Two, he never actually does anything beyond maybe starting the first load. Three, and most damning of all? It makes the house smell like stale cigarettes while his stuff is in the dryer. He smokes like a freakin' chimney and thus all his stuff reeks and I'm the only person who will wash his stuff a third time (or at least rinse) if it still stinks. Everyone else just gets tired of it and throws it on into the dryer. Which just means we suffer, guys. Sigh.
In semi happier news, I made it out to Toys R Us yesterday to use my Mattel voucher I got awhile ago when I got a broken Toralei. (Self, did you ever actually replace her? Huh. I should check on that.) It expired the 29th and the only place I know for sure that still takes the vouchers is TRU, but I got sick last week sooooooo... yeah. Down to the wire. Anyway, it worked out, in theory, because MH is 20% off this week. :D So I went in, hoping to find a couple of the exclusive two packs I hadn't bought yet and that when I last went they were drowning in. Yeah, no. They had the Love's Not Dead 2pack and they had the new Rockers line sorta, and they also had Elissabat. I carried Tora/Catty around for awhile and I was seriously tempted by the three pack, but I really only want Clawdeen. Do I want Clawdeen enough to spend $30+ on her though? I decided if I did, I'd do it at home when I could get extra points. I put Tora/Catty away because there was some eyewonk that even I noticed.
I grabbed a MegaBloks Spectra to go with my Ghoulia I got right after Christmas, and handed Mums the money and voucher because I wanted it to feel more like a gift. Which is easier when you don't actually do the buying. Plus I think she has the TRU membership on her keys.
Mistake. Big mistake. I don't know how other TRUs are set up or staffed because this is the only one around and has been for decades at this point. I really think we might be going on twenty years at this point. Crap, I feel old. Yup, double checked. The next closest store is in Georgia and if you're staying in state, Myrtle Beach and Columbia are your next closest, at over a hundred miles away. :P Anyway, the point here is that they are it and they know it.
Unfortunately, the company knows it too, and our store is basically one step up from complete wasteland. In the last, say, five years, I've never seen as many employees there as I did yesterday. And I normally go in around Christmas and Mums and I did the Christmas Eve toy run one year for Widget, okay? So when I say there were a lot of employees, I don't just mean four instead of the two I normally run across. Oh no, I kept tripping over them anytime I'd go down an aisle and it wasn't the same employee any time. It was weird.
But how could this lead to a mistake, you might wonder. Well... the dolls are right by the bank of registers. And Mom is standing there because suddenly ALL the employees have disappeared. Eventually guest services, which I'd tried to tell her was likely the checkout despite them never actually paying attention until you're actually considering just walking out the door with your stuff because at least then someone would be around (or you'd get free stuff) hears Mom saying, "Hello? Excuse me? Anyone?"
And things go downhill from there.
Mom is less than pleased that one has to hike all the way back over to guest services, which could not be any further from the registers and still be at the front of the store, to check out especially since nothing about guest services says "check out here!" Returns, yes. Regular sales? Nope. So she vents and it escalates and it ends with Mom handing over the voucher and Gerry, our sales associate (I wandered over after dying of embarrassment) gets this look and I knew damn well what she was gonna say before she opened her mouth. This is why you don't harass the clerks, Mums, especially when the boss is suddenly hiding.
"You can't use this. It says Barbie. You can't use it on Monster High."
The fuck I can't, lady. But Mom is pissed and just shoves the cart to the side and goes to leave and Gerry is all, "You can't use that door either!"
Mums storms off and I'm torn between knowing she's not entirely in the right but she's also not entirely wrong, and also, I'm not letting that damn voucher go to waste. I did not brave the sun and the traffic just to be told No. So I hurry after Mom, grab the voucher and re-read it. Sure enough, right at the top in GIANT letters, it says it's good on ANY Mattel product. If there was any other store I knew would take it, I'd just go there, but there isn't and dammit, I'm getting my doll.
So I go back in and Gerry gives me this look like, "Oh, it's you." I hold out the voucher, and in my strangled "I'm sick and you're wrong" voice, politely inform her it's on any Mattel product. When she realizes Mom isn't behind me, she immediately says, "Oh, I see now." The fuck you do, woman. I know that trick because I've used it myself, ok? Only when I do it, it's actually true. You just didn't want to help someone who was being an ass, and for that, well... I don't entirely blame you. But now you're dealing with me and I'm not leaving without my discount doll, dammit.
So then she makes this huge deal about looking all over the box for the Mattel logo and I assure her that it's Mattel. You work in a goddamn toystore, and this ain't your first rodeo. We both know you know MH and Barbie are owned by the same damn company. (I wouldn't say this about an employee I knew was new, but she's been there the last two times I've been to TRU and those visits have been spread out.)
Annnnnnd then she has to get backup from someone because she doesn't know how to ring it up and suddenly all 20 employees are back from wherever they disappeared. They actually open registers for the two people behind me, even though nothing about this part of the transaction is taking any extra time. Really? Fucking really? These people JUST got in line behind me and you're gonna break a sweat running to a register to ring them up? I mean, it took probably four minutes from start to finish after I got back in the store, so that's not a long enough time to wait.
I do make sure they take the full $5 off the doll, not the MegaBlok because I'm not getting hosed on that. I take my stuff and leave, polite as can be. Sigh. I love my mother, but when she feels like she's been slighted, watch the fuck out.
I did get to huff some of the Strawberry Shortcake dolls and wander through the MLP aisle before the incident. The MLP section was seriously messed up, though I did see the Queen Chrysalis Equestria Girls doll and she was/is pretty awesome. I've mostly written the EQ line off because I like it in theory but in person it just doesn't really do much for me the way I want it to... but she's pretty badass. I bemoaned the lack of brushables in any form (whyyyyyy) and wished there was a price on the SSC multipack I wanted.
In semi happier news, I made it out to Toys R Us yesterday to use my Mattel voucher I got awhile ago when I got a broken Toralei. (Self, did you ever actually replace her? Huh. I should check on that.) It expired the 29th and the only place I know for sure that still takes the vouchers is TRU, but I got sick last week sooooooo... yeah. Down to the wire. Anyway, it worked out, in theory, because MH is 20% off this week. :D So I went in, hoping to find a couple of the exclusive two packs I hadn't bought yet and that when I last went they were drowning in. Yeah, no. They had the Love's Not Dead 2pack and they had the new Rockers line sorta, and they also had Elissabat. I carried Tora/Catty around for awhile and I was seriously tempted by the three pack, but I really only want Clawdeen. Do I want Clawdeen enough to spend $30+ on her though? I decided if I did, I'd do it at home when I could get extra points. I put Tora/Catty away because there was some eyewonk that even I noticed.
I grabbed a MegaBloks Spectra to go with my Ghoulia I got right after Christmas, and handed Mums the money and voucher because I wanted it to feel more like a gift. Which is easier when you don't actually do the buying. Plus I think she has the TRU membership on her keys.
Mistake. Big mistake. I don't know how other TRUs are set up or staffed because this is the only one around and has been for decades at this point. I really think we might be going on twenty years at this point. Crap, I feel old. Yup, double checked. The next closest store is in Georgia and if you're staying in state, Myrtle Beach and Columbia are your next closest, at over a hundred miles away. :P Anyway, the point here is that they are it and they know it.
Unfortunately, the company knows it too, and our store is basically one step up from complete wasteland. In the last, say, five years, I've never seen as many employees there as I did yesterday. And I normally go in around Christmas and Mums and I did the Christmas Eve toy run one year for Widget, okay? So when I say there were a lot of employees, I don't just mean four instead of the two I normally run across. Oh no, I kept tripping over them anytime I'd go down an aisle and it wasn't the same employee any time. It was weird.
But how could this lead to a mistake, you might wonder. Well... the dolls are right by the bank of registers. And Mom is standing there because suddenly ALL the employees have disappeared. Eventually guest services, which I'd tried to tell her was likely the checkout despite them never actually paying attention until you're actually considering just walking out the door with your stuff because at least then someone would be around (or you'd get free stuff) hears Mom saying, "Hello? Excuse me? Anyone?"
And things go downhill from there.
Mom is less than pleased that one has to hike all the way back over to guest services, which could not be any further from the registers and still be at the front of the store, to check out especially since nothing about guest services says "check out here!" Returns, yes. Regular sales? Nope. So she vents and it escalates and it ends with Mom handing over the voucher and Gerry, our sales associate (I wandered over after dying of embarrassment) gets this look and I knew damn well what she was gonna say before she opened her mouth. This is why you don't harass the clerks, Mums, especially when the boss is suddenly hiding.
"You can't use this. It says Barbie. You can't use it on Monster High."
The fuck I can't, lady. But Mom is pissed and just shoves the cart to the side and goes to leave and Gerry is all, "You can't use that door either!"
Mums storms off and I'm torn between knowing she's not entirely in the right but she's also not entirely wrong, and also, I'm not letting that damn voucher go to waste. I did not brave the sun and the traffic just to be told No. So I hurry after Mom, grab the voucher and re-read it. Sure enough, right at the top in GIANT letters, it says it's good on ANY Mattel product. If there was any other store I knew would take it, I'd just go there, but there isn't and dammit, I'm getting my doll.
So I go back in and Gerry gives me this look like, "Oh, it's you." I hold out the voucher, and in my strangled "I'm sick and you're wrong" voice, politely inform her it's on any Mattel product. When she realizes Mom isn't behind me, she immediately says, "Oh, I see now." The fuck you do, woman. I know that trick because I've used it myself, ok? Only when I do it, it's actually true. You just didn't want to help someone who was being an ass, and for that, well... I don't entirely blame you. But now you're dealing with me and I'm not leaving without my discount doll, dammit.
So then she makes this huge deal about looking all over the box for the Mattel logo and I assure her that it's Mattel. You work in a goddamn toystore, and this ain't your first rodeo. We both know you know MH and Barbie are owned by the same damn company. (I wouldn't say this about an employee I knew was new, but she's been there the last two times I've been to TRU and those visits have been spread out.)
Annnnnnd then she has to get backup from someone because she doesn't know how to ring it up and suddenly all 20 employees are back from wherever they disappeared. They actually open registers for the two people behind me, even though nothing about this part of the transaction is taking any extra time. Really? Fucking really? These people JUST got in line behind me and you're gonna break a sweat running to a register to ring them up? I mean, it took probably four minutes from start to finish after I got back in the store, so that's not a long enough time to wait.
I do make sure they take the full $5 off the doll, not the MegaBlok because I'm not getting hosed on that. I take my stuff and leave, polite as can be. Sigh. I love my mother, but when she feels like she's been slighted, watch the fuck out.
I did get to huff some of the Strawberry Shortcake dolls and wander through the MLP aisle before the incident. The MLP section was seriously messed up, though I did see the Queen Chrysalis Equestria Girls doll and she was/is pretty awesome. I've mostly written the EQ line off because I like it in theory but in person it just doesn't really do much for me the way I want it to... but she's pretty badass. I bemoaned the lack of brushables in any form (whyyyyyy) and wished there was a price on the SSC multipack I wanted.