I just won the "Be the First to Ruin Christmas" game.
Yep. I did. How can I win the game so late in the year? How can that be possible?
Cause I just won the "Be the First to Ruin Christmas OF 2010" game!
So tradition in my family is that, on the day after Christmas, the kiddos stay with the grandparents and play with their new loot and we (me, the hubby, and any siblings in town) go to the after Christmas sales to stock up on paper, cards, bows, decorations, ect. It's the best way to do Christmas decoration and wrappings shopping cause everything's like 50% off.
So we're at Wal-Mart and I see an ornament that Daughter had really liked this year but hadn't gotten. It's the last one so I go ahead and grab it and put it in my cart.
"NOOOOOO!!!!!!!" I hear from behind me and see this woman literally running over to me and sticking her hand into my cart for something. I kind of jerk the cart out of her way and look at her like she's crazy.
"Can I help you?"
"I need that ornament!"
"I'm sorry, but my daughter really liked it and I wanted to get it for her."
"But I saw it first!"
"Then you should have picked it up."
"But I want it!"
"I'm sorry. I'm already getting it." This whole time, she is trying to reach into my cart. I grab my Hubby's hand and start to walk away.
"I need it!" She screams after me. "It's mine!"
"Sorry."
"I hope you're happy! YOU JUST RUINED MY DAUGHTER'S CHRISTMAS!!!!"
Hubby had to turn around at that one. "Christmas was yesterday, Ma'am."
"Next Christmas! She needs that ornament!"
"I'm sure there will be plenty more between now and then."
We walked away then.
But seriously, stressing that badly about an ornament? A $3 ornament? Maybe I should have just given it to her, but I saw no reason to.
I just think it's amusing that I ruined Christmas....in a year that isn't even here yet.
Yep. I did. How can I win the game so late in the year? How can that be possible?
Cause I just won the "Be the First to Ruin Christmas OF 2010" game!
So tradition in my family is that, on the day after Christmas, the kiddos stay with the grandparents and play with their new loot and we (me, the hubby, and any siblings in town) go to the after Christmas sales to stock up on paper, cards, bows, decorations, ect. It's the best way to do Christmas decoration and wrappings shopping cause everything's like 50% off.
So we're at Wal-Mart and I see an ornament that Daughter had really liked this year but hadn't gotten. It's the last one so I go ahead and grab it and put it in my cart.
"NOOOOOO!!!!!!!" I hear from behind me and see this woman literally running over to me and sticking her hand into my cart for something. I kind of jerk the cart out of her way and look at her like she's crazy.
"Can I help you?"
"I need that ornament!"
"I'm sorry, but my daughter really liked it and I wanted to get it for her."
"But I saw it first!"
"Then you should have picked it up."
"But I want it!"
"I'm sorry. I'm already getting it." This whole time, she is trying to reach into my cart. I grab my Hubby's hand and start to walk away.
"I need it!" She screams after me. "It's mine!"
"Sorry."
"I hope you're happy! YOU JUST RUINED MY DAUGHTER'S CHRISTMAS!!!!"
Hubby had to turn around at that one. "Christmas was yesterday, Ma'am."
"Next Christmas! She needs that ornament!"
"I'm sure there will be plenty more between now and then."
We walked away then.
But seriously, stressing that badly about an ornament? A $3 ornament? Maybe I should have just given it to her, but I saw no reason to.
I just think it's amusing that I ruined Christmas....in a year that isn't even here yet.
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