Hiding in plain sight

[bhskittykatt]

Boss Man made me venture to the hardware store today. I am NOT a hardware store person. Normally, I borrow a CW or Hubs to help me navigate the place, but I was on my own today.

My mission was to find a gallon of acetone. I was directed by the cashier up front to go back to the paint section. I found the paint-thinner section. Turpentine. Naptha. Laquer thinner. All sorts of things that were clost to what I needed, but I didn't see Acetone.

After staring at the selection for a minute. I went to ask for help, but all the associates were busy. They noticed me looking lost, though, so I went back to stare at the selection some more until they weren't busy. I checked a couple other aisles, but there was just no other logical place for it to be.

I literally spent almost five minutes (literally...I was watching the clock) staring it before I saw "Acetone" right in front of me, just below eye level. It was just a little futher back on the shelf, that was all. Perhaps it's a good thing all the associates were busy. I would have felt really foolish having them point out the obvious for me. I waved at the nearest associate as I left the department so he wouldn't have to go searching for me later, and went to check out.

You can't expect too much from me. I'm the same person who didn't notice a 4 ft tall wooden camel in the middle of her living room. Hubs thinks I'm hopeless. I tend to agree with him.

[dalesys]

Hubs: You'll never guess what I painted flourescent green polkadots on last week...

[Chromatix]

Well that would be a good use for the acetone, at least...

[dalesys]

Well that would be a good use for the acetone, at least...

Instant Jerry Lee Lewis! "Great ... Of Fire!"

[MoonCat]

Dare I ask what the wooden camel was for?

[terakhan]

Personally, I just take the embarrassment and ask. If its there and I am just not seeing it for whatever reason, I don't waste however long looking for it hopelessly. If its not there, they can possibly get one from the back for me, or do whatever other inventory-related tasks are involved with it.

I know, it's basically breaking the male stereotype about asking for directions, but I consider my time more important than my pride when it comes to little stuff like miscellaneous shopping.

Seriously though, I am curious about the camel thing myself. Please elaborate on that a bit more.

[Whiskey]

Dare I ask what the wooden camel was for?

girl you cant make a proper camel toe without wood.

[bhskittykatt]

girl you cant make a proper camel toe without wood.

The camel was just something Hubs found out by the curb somewhere. Looks like it may have been from a Nativity set or something. So he brought it home, set it up. I came home and chilled in the living room for about four hours before I showered and went to sleep. Hubs came into the bedroom, and the following conversation ensued:

Hubs: Did you notice anything different about the living room?
Me: No...was I supposed to?
Hubs: Come on, really?
Me: Um...sorry? No?
Hubs:
Me:
Hubs: There's a camel in the living room.
Me: ...wha?
Hubs: Go look!

I had to get out of bed and go see it. Yeah, those four hours I was out there? Didn't notice it at all. The things about four...maybe four and a half feet tall!

[Crossbow]

If it was my friend's living room, I wouldn't notice it either. But he collects camels, so one more (even 4 feet tall) among the 500+ he already has wouldn't stand out.

My own living room, though? I think I'd spot that. Maybe.

[Chrismor]

My b(r)other would be the oblivious kind. At one point I had called in an order of a pizza for dinner, while standing 2 feet away from him, and he did not notice. He then complained that I did not make pizza and chips for dinner (I made the chips, with the pizza arriving 2 minutes later).

Seriously, how could he not hear me call in an order for pizza, when I was the only person making noise in a room, standing that close to him?

C.

[Jetfire]

For Christmas a few years back, we got mom a new microwave to match the rest of the kitchen set. We stashed it in the basement Christmas Eve and after she went to bed, I took it out, swapped it for the old one, and put some paper on it.

Christmas Morning, she came down, started preparing dinner (Turkey in the oven, taters on the stove, etc...) and didn't notice a thing. Dad, my sister and I were pissing ourselves trying not to laugh, asking if she noticed anything in the Kitchen. We had to all but lead her to the Microwave before her eyes lit up and she noticed the big wrapped boxlike thing.