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Hello, October
Oct. 1st, 2016 11:26 amCass wanted the new NBC Sally ornament but she had to work and her Hallmark wouldn't hold it for her, so she called me in. Now, it's a little tricksy of her to call me Thursday around noon and say, with no preamble, "I need you." For a moment there I was sure something bad had happened and I was either going to be sitting at the hospital or burying a body. Yes. In that order, that's how my brain works. So I was relieved when it turned out to just be kill time after work and possibly stand in line for a new Hallmark thing.
I doubted her that there would be a line. I should not have. Granted, I started that line when I saw two older women pull in at quarter to eight after Mums and I had been there for about an hour. No way were we letting other people possibly snag the Sally out from under our noses!
So we got out of the car and ambled up to the store where not a sign was posted about them opening early for the new releases. Um...
The other ladies appear and we're all killing time til a second employee (I spent part of my initial hour there watching the store manager unpack things and vacuum and wow does that sound creepy) flies by, all surprised by the little line we've formed.
"My, you're all here early!" to which we all chorus a yes, indeedy. "You do realize we don't open til nine, right?"
The Hallmark Buff behind me and I both stutter a "nuh uh, eight!" and I follow with, "the lady on the phone said eight am." Second employee is puzzled and goes in to check. She comes back five minutes later (it's now after eight) and says there was a misunderstanding or something because they had no plans to open early for this release, unlike the July one, but that if we give them about fifteen minutes to set up the registers, they'll let us in. Uh, okay... if it weren't for the Hallmark Buff also showing up an hour early, I'd assume that Cass fibbed about talking to someone at this store. But HB seemed to think they'd be open, too, sooooooo...
Fifteen minutes pass and we go in and Mums asks about Sally (I'm busy looking all along the wall and displays) and turns out they kept Sally behind the register. I swear when I checked out a little bit later I didn't see another one, so either my eyesight is worse than I thought or Cass got the only one. I don't think HB had one, though maybe she'd Wishlisted one? In any case, I was victorious!
And now I'm exhausted because I spent that extra half an hour between work and sitting outside the store (in a non-creepy way) at the Walmart where they had one very short aisle of Halloween decorations. D: One! What kind of fuckery is that? I bought a trio of ghosts and some wax melts annnnnnnnd then I found the BYBY Monster High trio on sale for $9. Um, yes thank you. I'd hoped they go on serious clearance. $3 a doll, yay! I kept meaning to buy it when it was $20 but I always had other things I had to buy before dolls. Huzzah!
I'm off to wash my elbows because work shredded both of them this week, which would've been helpful if I had to throw elbows around if there'd been a big line for Sally. Well. Maybe not if there really was only one, but still. No one would mess with me if I shoved either in their face because ew.
I doubted her that there would be a line. I should not have. Granted, I started that line when I saw two older women pull in at quarter to eight after Mums and I had been there for about an hour. No way were we letting other people possibly snag the Sally out from under our noses!
So we got out of the car and ambled up to the store where not a sign was posted about them opening early for the new releases. Um...
The other ladies appear and we're all killing time til a second employee (I spent part of my initial hour there watching the store manager unpack things and vacuum and wow does that sound creepy) flies by, all surprised by the little line we've formed.
"My, you're all here early!" to which we all chorus a yes, indeedy. "You do realize we don't open til nine, right?"
The Hallmark Buff behind me and I both stutter a "nuh uh, eight!" and I follow with, "the lady on the phone said eight am." Second employee is puzzled and goes in to check. She comes back five minutes later (it's now after eight) and says there was a misunderstanding or something because they had no plans to open early for this release, unlike the July one, but that if we give them about fifteen minutes to set up the registers, they'll let us in. Uh, okay... if it weren't for the Hallmark Buff also showing up an hour early, I'd assume that Cass fibbed about talking to someone at this store. But HB seemed to think they'd be open, too, sooooooo...
Fifteen minutes pass and we go in and Mums asks about Sally (I'm busy looking all along the wall and displays) and turns out they kept Sally behind the register. I swear when I checked out a little bit later I didn't see another one, so either my eyesight is worse than I thought or Cass got the only one. I don't think HB had one, though maybe she'd Wishlisted one? In any case, I was victorious!
And now I'm exhausted because I spent that extra half an hour between work and sitting outside the store (in a non-creepy way) at the Walmart where they had one very short aisle of Halloween decorations. D: One! What kind of fuckery is that? I bought a trio of ghosts and some wax melts annnnnnnnd then I found the BYBY Monster High trio on sale for $9. Um, yes thank you. I'd hoped they go on serious clearance. $3 a doll, yay! I kept meaning to buy it when it was $20 but I always had other things I had to buy before dolls. Huzzah!
I'm off to wash my elbows because work shredded both of them this week, which would've been helpful if I had to throw elbows around if there'd been a big line for Sally. Well. Maybe not if there really was only one, but still. No one would mess with me if I shoved either in their face because ew.