Fighting over poinsettas?

[LadyAndreca]

Okay. So they're $0.99 (limit 10). Cheap. I get it. But come on! You are walking down a CORRIDOR of them to get into the store! We had HUNDREDS of them! It took us FOUR HOURS to sell out of them, despite everyone buying at least five, that's how many we had.

But come store opening at 6 AM, I was watching people tearing apart the display racks trying to get them first, two women having a tug-of-war with a single pot, and the most chaos I have ever seen in the store, over a 99 cent plant that is normally $2.97.

[LibraryLady]

Lady Andreca, things have come to a horrible pass when people fight over little red Christmas plants. If they will fight over those they will fight over anything.

Unless you live out in the middle of nowhere there are always places to buy pointsettias at a reasonable price. Even if you can't get real ones, there are fake ones that look properly festive. After all, the things don't have a scent. They just look pretty.

If this is any indication of what you will have to face for the holiday season, you have my greatest sympathies. When you can, go home, enjoy a bubble-bath and a piece of chocolate. It will make the wold look much better. If you can, snatch a pointsettia for yourself. A little red plant always makes the house look much more cheerful.

[roguesqd]

oh yeah we had people nabbing those freakin flowers all morning, was soooo happy when the cheap ones were gone

[LadyAndreca]

There's NO WAY we have no chocolate in this house. There can't be. That's almost enough reason to brave going back out there tonight...

All in all, it wasn't as bad as I was afraid, but then I lucked out and got put on the outside register and none of the customers seemed to realize I was out there because the garden doesn't normally open before dawn. Once they pulled me to an inside register, I spent the day cheerfully humming Weird Al's "Christmas at Ground Zero" and "The Night Santa Went Crazy" and Tom Lehrer's "A Christmas Carol" to drown out the endless loop of way-overplayed traditional Christmas favorites while everyone wondered why I was in such a good mood. (Sleep deprivation + too much caffiene + too easily amused, mostly. )

[fireheart]

the only reason why I buy a poinsettia every year (fake of course) is so I can wear it in my hair. I do that instead of the santa hats so I don't accidentally spread anything.

[tropicsgoddess]

My mom has tons of the fake poinsettias. I don't but all that fighting over some fake cheap decorative flower?!! Sheesh, no wonder the faith in humanity is so low.

[jackfaire]

God those damn plants invaded my office today.