Never send a minion to do a god's work.
Glory ,'The Killer In Me'
Natter 55: It's the 55th Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sumi - Nov 21, 2007 7:36:13 am PST #3508 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
juliana - Nov 21, 2007 7:44:56 am PST #3509 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
When I worked retail, there would be people lined up outside the door at Penney's for our 5 AM opening. It was crazy!
My Pier 1 management experience, let me show you it. I had people pounding on the door at 4:45 a.m. one Black Friday, and we didn't even open until 6. That was also the year of having to physically restrain a guy from coming in to our store on Christmas Eve as I was escorting our last customer out - an hour after we had closed. No one but no one needs overpriced crap from overseas that badly.
All hail online shopping.
askye - Nov 21, 2007 7:48:58 am PST #3510 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
I worked retail for several years, Black Friday and the day after Christmas are just nuts. Black Friday you have cranky parents, dragging their cranky spouses and kids around trying to buy crap. Or I'd end up with people trying to stealthy buy something for the person they are shopping with.
Then the day after Christmas you have people with opened merchandise and no receipt wanting a refund.
lisah - Nov 21, 2007 7:49:52 am PST #3511 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
All hail online shopping.
And supporting your local, independent retailers!
Most years I do almost 100% of my xmas shopping at the stores in my 'hood.
Ginger - Nov 21, 2007 7:52:51 am PST #3512 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Like back in the cavemen days, a cavewoman might be surrounded by four cougars.
Statistically, she'd be most likely to survive if she picked the first cougar she thought of, and didn't waffle around thinking it might be cougar #3.
If skill at multiple choice tests had any relationship to life, I'd be living in a mansion with cabana boys.
tommyrot - Nov 21, 2007 7:53:58 am PST #3513 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Statistically, she'd be most likely to survive if she picked the first cougar she thought of, and didn't waffle around thinking it might be cougar #3.
I think this has been shown to not be true. (The thing about always going with your first answer.)
Ginger - Nov 21, 2007 7:55:58 am PST #3514 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I had a psychology professor who designed his tests to teach people to pick their first answer. The tests had something like 300 questions, and the more you answered, the less each wrong answer counted off.
Aims - Nov 21, 2007 7:56:28 am PST #3515 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Aimee, is that deal at kmart on Friday? or Thursday?
Cashmere, on Thursday.
shrift - Nov 21, 2007 8:02:16 am PST #3516 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I'm going to die of boredom before I have a chance to leave early for the train station.
Toddson - Nov 21, 2007 8:04:08 am PST #3517 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I love online shopping - if it exists, it's likely to turn up on the internet. (A friend of mine has been looking for some movies on DVD; her husband insists that they not use their credit cards for online shopping (yes, crazy), so I tracked down #1 on her list and purchased it in about 15 minutes.)