The Characters

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The Main Characters

Adri – Adri is Kim’s older daughter. She is fun-loving and enjoys the excitement of a crazy day. She doesn’t always enunciate her words the best … example, “I love this song!” can sound like “I love you so!”. She appreciates random small things, whether in stories or gifts. If she’s hyper, expect her to act a bit insane. Like masking tape my entire soda, or picking up random things in the store and laugh hysterically – for unknown reasons.
  Adri is also a firm believer in the Murphy conspiracy. This being said, she has become a target of his many tricks. She’s had kamikaze wind spinners jump in front of her, the registers eat money, and of course, balloons disappear from her fingers, floating upwards toward a lonely ceiling.
  Adri always make sure to enjoy her time spent at the dollar store – even if a little bit of craziness is involved.

Dave – Dave is the owner (or co-owner) of Dollar Alley. He is a great fan of this blog, and a firm agnostic of Murphy the evil register. He does a lot of the business stuff of the dollar store (you know, the boring stuff), but he always enjoys a good laugh. Despite what other people *cough* might say, he has a great heart and is always willing and ready to help out with a problem.
     Dave likes to say that he can tie a hundred balloons in his sleep, so if you ever need balloons at 1am, call Dave at …
    (what, you really thought I would give you his cell phone number? I’d wake up with a random register staring at me in the morning … or a hundred air filled balloons laying on the floor to scare me to death when I go to take a step).

Kayla – Kayla and I were hired at the same time. It was kinda ironic when we first worked together around Christmas time, and we figured out we had been in third grade together – and hadn’t seen each other since. Kayla has been working at the store longer than I have (since I took the four month break), and definitely has some strange experiences that I have never encountered with customers, like people literally pulling the balloons off the walls, or asking for calendars in order. She’s also a senior, but can definitely laugh at the crazy things that happen sometimes.

Leah – Leah is Dave’s younger daughter, and loves making fun of me (as do I). She works several jobs, but she does each one well. She is an expert at putting small things together to make something really cool – like flower arrangements, balloons, even gift bags. She’s crazy but good at what she does. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been working with her and I laughed so hard that I cried. The craziest stuff comes out of her mouth especially when she’s bored or tired. It makes working with her fun and interesting. Leah always manages to find something random in her life each day, and makes all of us smile.

Kim – Kim is the owner (or manager … or just a cashier … depends who’s asking) of Dollar Alley. Yes, Kim and Dave are both owners. (That’s because they’re married … duh!) Kim is in charge of the employees and the customers and the listed orders (minus the batteries and boring automotive stuff) and lots of other fun stuff. Kim also believes in Murphy and has many problems with him as well.
        Kim is open to suggestions and requests for new products (although that doesn’t mean she will get them in). If you ever let her know that we are out of a certain product, she may use a famous quote that goes something like this, “Thank you … for telling me … so I can write it down …”

Murphy – Murphy is a cash register. You might ask, why is a cash register a main character? For those of you who have been following along the saga, you might continue to ask, why is Murphy still a main character when the new registers have come and replaced him? Isn’t he now silenced? Well, that’s where you’re wrong.
 Murphy is involved in all sort of mischief about the store. At one time, he managed to get almost the entire store involved in the conspiracy: the registers and stock vs the humans. Boxes falling randomly, rubber bands attacking you from the ceiling, balloons popping, and the register drawers falling out.
 However, even with Murphy gone, the older stock has not forgotten the ultimate plan. Rubber bands will still attack from the ceiling, and boxes can fall randomly. Especially with the new registers leaving soon, you never know what to expect.

Myself – My name is Alexia, but most of the times you will hear me referred to as “I” on this blog. (This being because I am writing it.) I’m a senior who is hoping to go for a business degree after I graduate. I took a break from the dollar store for a little bit, but I am back and ready to face the new adventures waiting.

Coming soon: Josh, Erin [Any feedback on what you want me to add would be greatly appreciated.]

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