Doll Rivalry?

[lobo94]

A funny from years back when I worked at a major television shopping channel.

Okay. Customer calls in, wanting to return a doll she'd purchased off a doll show. It's within the 30 day return window, no issues. During the course of the call, the customer had said that "they" had thought it best to return the doll.

A few minutes later, I found out who "they" were-the customer, the doll to be returned, and some of the other dolls the customer had. Apparently, they couldn't get along. Oooo-kaaay...

I had to take a break after that call to laugh. There are some strange people out there on 3rd shift.

If I'd ever felt strange about talking to my cats, I didn't after this.

This one's for all my wee ones, past and present.

[MoonCat]

Anybody else flashback to that old Alfred Hitchcock episode about the mannequins that come to life after hours?

[roothorick]

Anybody else flashback to that old Alfred Hitchcock episode about the mannequins that come to life after hours?

No, but...



I have a bunch of Furbies sitting on the shelves in my bedroom. I skinned one of them. I'm not sleeping tonight.

[Julesy]

That's creepy!

[MoonCat]

You should see what my sisters and I used to do with our Barbie dolls! We didn't go in for the "let's play house" kinda games, ours were more along the lines of "Barbie (or whatever, we always gave them other names) gets kidnapped by hostile cannibal giants."

[Ironclad Alibi]

Anybody else flashback to that old Alfred Hitchcock episode about the mannequins that come to life after hours?

There was a Twilight Zone Episode, The After Hours, where the mannequins come to life after dark. I just watched it again. A few of the scenes were somewhat more entertaining after reading these forums.

[Nonstop_Death]

My first thought was Talky Tina...

[MoonCat]

There was a Twilight Zone Episode, The After Hours, where the mannequins come to life after dark. I just watched it again. A few of the scenes were somewhat more entertaining after reading these forums.

Oooops, you are correct! Twilight Zone, not Hitchcock!

I need more

[Food Lady]

Amityville and Talking Tina are 2 reasons dolls freak me out. And the OP's customer is a third. o_O We have a talking doll aisle at my store. I actually call it the Creepy Toy Aisle. I hate walking down it because they're cued to movement. Bonus points if the store's closed.

[Merriweather]

You should see what my sisters and I used to do with our Barbie dolls! We didn't go in for the "let's play house" kinda games, ours were more along the lines of "Barbie (or whatever, we always gave them other names) gets kidnapped by hostile cannibal giants."

You would love my granddaughter, LOL. She stays with us for at least a month each summer. While here, she plays with the daughter of one of my neighbors, and they play Barbies a lot. Last year (they were both 6), my neighbor says her daughter never plays Barbies alone or with her other friends, she says it's boring", but loves playing with them with my granddaughter. I usually overhear bits of the play, which has included running from flowing lava, escaping the people-eating forest (my houseplants), and enough plot twists for Alfred Hitchcock.

[Brojekk]

There was a movie I saw a bunch of years ago. It's called "Dolls".
A bunch of random travelers took shelter from a storm in a creepy mansion,the owner and his wife had many handmade dolls in each room.
Some of the travelers were not so nice people and the dolls didn't like them.

[Flying Grype]

My sister and I had some awesome Barbie adventures. Her doll was... Clara? and mine were Tasha and Charity. They lived in a bookcase apartment building, and most of the adventures would start out with Ken coming to pick one of them up on a date but he'd turn out to be a spy or a thief or someone's evil minion. Then the girls would fight him and someone would end up in a car accident or falling off a cliff or something.

Clara still has red lipstick and Crayola marker all over her body from where my sister drew wounds on her. Also, Charity was an android. I decided that because she was made of a different kind of plastic and had a weird pale skin that made her look fake compared to the other dolls.

Re: scary mannequins: this came up on Picture Is Unrelated.

http://pictureisunrelated.com/2010/0...ill-see-today/

[AccountingDrone]

my 6 goddaughters are a blast to buy presents for, each of them likes a different american girls doll, so all i need to do is buy stuff for them from the right collection =) and when they hit reading age, I started tossing in giftcards to bookstores =) Even the 21 year old still likes her american girl doll stuff I gave her just giftcards for books when she hit 16 and she was so disappointed not to get something for her girl ... so we went and got her the newest release the next day =) She was so nonsucky about it, and was really polite when she thanked me for the cards I just had to get her the doll stuff too.

[Dreamstalker]

I usually overhear bits of the play, which has included running from flowing lava, escaping the people-eating forest (my houseplants), and enough plot twists for Alfred Hitchcock.

That sounds like me when I was a pup. Mom has no idea where I got that imaginative streak from, when she found out Dad had Twilight Zone videos she blamed him.

[Imogene]

My sister in law has a guest room with a single shelf of porcelain dolls, way up high... they (her and my brother) decided to put a bookshelf in that room, and I remember my brother saying my sister in law has taken to hiding his books on that shelf, as he refuses to go in that room any longer. Creeps him right the hell out.