Tuesday, July 8, 2008

You've got to be kidding me

So I haven't posted in a while because life is so busy and nothing much has happened until today. All I can say was did this really happen? Do you remember the scene on Meet the Parents when he tries to board the plane? Specifically when she makes him wait until she calls his row out and there is nobody else around. That was me at JoAnn's today. Our store has recently been through some renovation to update things including the cutting table. Some of you may be familiar with the ol "take a number" idea. We all know how it works. So there I was, 5 minutes after they had opened, not another customer in site. There was a girl at the cutting table so I walked up and asked if she could cut some fabric for me that I had just pulled from the shelf. She just looked at me then looks up at the red digital counter that tells her who's next in line and looks at me again with a small smile. "Am I supposed to take a number?" I ask. She says yes. So I grab a number...number 81 none the less. Then she looks around, picks up the speaker phone and uses it as the intercom as says over the loud speaker "81, now serving number 81." I slowly slide my little piece of paper her way, she looks at the winning number and asks "81, how can I help you today?" OH MY GOSH! Where do I start? She must have been new or something because the whole thing was totally ridiculous. On the way out Abby asked why I had to pull out a number to get help and my reply was "I don't know Abby, I just don't know." As Seinfeld puts it "people, they're the worst."