Got all of my regular crazies today, at the same time

[fireheart]

Quoth XCashier

The rest...yikes. If I never hear "Who Let The Dogs Out" or "I Want Candy" or "Ring Of Fire" again, it'll be too soon! And yes, the kids just love playing them all at once. And the batteries are getting weak, which distorts the music. Joy.

The ones that we have sing either nursery rhymes or Elvis songs.

And then there's the Christmas ones....

[HawaiianShirts]

Quoth hinakiba777

Wow 5 hours in a fabric store. That has to be some sort of record, no?

I doubt it. Four hours was par for the course for my mother when I was young enough to be forced to go shopping for craft supplies with her. I would play in the button bin for a while, get bored, wander to a quiet corner of the store, and find an empty bottom shelf on which to take a nap. Eventually, the store manager took pity on me. She set me up on the far end of the cutting table with a pricing gun and a box of ribbon spools, and, in exchange for two dollars and a Twix bar, I would do that kind of work for her while my mom shopped.

[Sheldonrs]

Something I've always wanted to know. If a crime is committed in a fabric store, do you get called in as a material witness?

[flutes_and_fabric]

Quoth Sheldonrs

Something I've always wanted to know. If a crime is committed in a fabric store, do you get called in as a material witness?

ha ha (to be said exactly like that)

Quoth HawaiianShirts

I doubt it. Four hours was par for the course for my mother when I was young enough to be forced to go shopping for craft supplies with her. I would play in the button bin for a while, get bored, wander to a quiet corner of the store, and find an empty bottom shelf on which to take a nap. Eventually, the store manager took pity on me. She set me up on the far end of the cutting table with a pricing gun and a box of ribbon spools, and, in exchange for two dollars and a Twix bar, I would do that kind of work for her while my mom shopped.

We have people like that who always bring there kids in and just leave them. I had a bunch of them putting away the ribbon spools on the lower shelves once as if it were a game. At least it kept them from making a mess. Some candy can go a long way. (A the parents didn't seem to mind cause it got the kids out of their hair)

Quoth XCashier

No, mine's just a regular store. I wish it was a super store, I'd love a bigger fabric cutting area.

I liked the black cat in the witch's hat holding the pumpkin, the one that sang "Black Magic Woman". That one sold out quickly. The rest...yikes. If I never hear "Who Let The Dogs Out" or "I Want Candy" or "Ring Of Fire" again, it'll be too soon! And yes, the kids just love playing them all at once. And the batteries are getting weak, which distorts the music. Joy.

I'm in a regular store also. We always get people coming down from the super store b/c their usual wait is now an hour or more for fabric (they have a ticket system so you can at least shop until they call your number), but a lot of the people tell us that we actually have a better selection of fabrics than the bigger stores. They also say we're much nicer than they are, but I can't vouch for that last shift. Things were getting crazy.

We try to put a lot of the toys like that on the top shelf, and then put one of each on the bottom with a "try me" sign in front of them. It's worked pretty well, the top shelves one still have good batteries.

[XCashier]

Quoth flutes_and_fabric

I'm in a regular store also. We always get people coming down from the super store b/c their usual wait is now an hour or more for fabric (they have a ticket system so you can at least shop until they call your number), but a lot of the people tell us that we actually have a better selection of fabrics than the bigger stores. They also say we're much nicer than they are, but I can't vouch for that last shift. Things were getting crazy.

We try to put a lot of the toys like that on the top shelf, and then put one of each on the bottom with a "try me" sign in front of them. It's worked pretty well, the top shelves one still have good batteries.

I've been to a super store, and they have a freaking HUGE selection of fabrics; at least twice what we've got. Not to mention three times the craft supplies and sewing notions, three times as many registers and cutting stations, and public restrooms.

Yes, we're constantly being asked if we have a restroom, and we have to tell them we have no public restrooms (our restrooms are in the backstock area, it's a liability to let the public back there). Never mind that there are several fast food restaurants just a short walk away, they get very upset if we don't let them use our restroom.

Now that we're down to the last few toys, they are on the top shelves, which has helped. But we didn't have the room to do that before (this is a small store in a very old building, we don't have as much room as we'd like).

[jackfaire]

I forgot who I was dealing with when I showed my mom this thread.

"Uhm yeah so five hours in a fabric store makes sense." As soon as I was old enough I told my mom I refused to go in fabric stores with her.

[VComps]

Quoth EvilEmpryss

In a fabric store!!!

Oh, that's nothing, EE - Our one-hour photo lab manager, who recently left the company to work on his own photographic business, is color-blind.

Actually, now that I think of it, our photo team leader is blind in one eye.

Despite that, both of them are absolute aces at their jobs.

[wolfie]

Quoth Sheldonrs

Something I've always wanted to know. If a crime is committed in a fabric store, do you get called in as a material witness?

I'd doubt it - too much risk of bias.

[OfficeSlug]

Quoth Supermarket Slave Girl

I'm shocked she shopped for 5 bloody hours, the woman has no life.

We have a woman who comes in DAILY and does scratch-off lottery tickets for FOUR hours minimum.

Talk about no life!!

[Pagan]

Quoth flutes_and_fabric

SC: I'm making a payer shawl, which is closer to blood?

Depends. Are we talking arterial or venous?