“Oh, my gosh!!” A customer blurted out to me. “I have to tell someone, so I’m gonna tell you. See, my name is Julie, and I thought it was cute that it was in that book over there for kids. So, I’m contemplating buying the book, when I walk around the corner and see my name on a pack of *whispers loudly* maxi pads!!”
(Yep. She bought them – just to show her friend.)
Out-of-town people who just moved in-town tend to stop at Dollar Alley first. (well, close enough, anyway) They also tend to be the most chatty – probably to find out how the town is. Anyway, we were talking about Giant, when I heard this story from Maryland.
”All our Giant’s were bought out by a farm company named A. Hold … and if ay-hold is not bad enough, they preferred to say it ahh-hold.”
And for the record, I now despise Dora the Explorer. The new balloon fell off the wall … and took out three others with it. So I taped it back up, only for it to disappear 15 minutes later. (It hid in the pet aisle.) I taped it again. Five minutes later, I hear a rustling. Sure enough, it had fallen off the wall again. With a vengeance, I put no less than 23 pieces of new tape on it, threatening it.
But to be perfectly honest, Murphy (who I’m sure was behind it) and Dora won … besides standing on a wobbly ladder, almost breaking the tape dispenser, and taping up all three others beside it, I managed to take out four of the toy displays near the top.
