T M X - Tickle Me Elmo X

[JustaCashier]

I always felt that people who pressed all the switches on the talking toys at the same time, were sucky customers.

Oh......I suppose, then, I should have second thoughts of posting about the time, many many years ago, when a buddy and I set off the sirens on several toy firetrucks at Fred Meyer.

Must've been about a five or six alarm fire!


Mike

[Seanette]

I don't recall what store DH and I were in at the time, but they had two different models of talking head objects: one that hurled insults, and one that groveled very well.

DH set them up so they were "conversing".

Some of the staff thought it was funny, some gave him looks that should have incinerated him on the spot.

[Jester]

I always felt that people who pressed all the switches on the talking toys at the same time, were sucky customers.

Yes, perhaps they are....but if you are not working at the place, it is absolutely freakin' hilarious! If you don't believe me, try it sometime at a store other than your own, and try, just try, to keep the tears of laughter from coming.

I kid you not, from reading the last few posts about doing just that, I am having trouble breathing from all the laughing!

[Ree]

Yes, perhaps they are....but if you are not working at the place, it is absolutely freakin' hilarious! If you don't believe me, try it sometime at a store other than your own

No, thanks, I don't believe in double standards.

Apparently it's only sucky behaviour if it's not us doing it.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

We got a whopping three Tickle Me Elmo X's in tonight.

They never made it to the shelf. Evidently we have rainchecks on them already.

Oooh, this is going to be an interesting holiday season, methinks.

[Jester]

No, thanks, I don't believe in double standards.

Apparently it's only sucky behaviour if it's not us doing it.

I respectfully disagree. I don't think it's a double standard at all. I think what it is is that if you work at a place that has these, such behavior drives you nuts because it happens ALL THE TIME, and you're sick of it.

Hmmm. Then again, I suppose if it happens all the time and you're sick of it, some of the novelty and humor or doing it somewhere else might just not be there.

[NightAngel]

I've told this story before but I'll tell it again. Why not?

Long ago I worked for Wal- Mart as a cashier/greeter. Now, I don't know if all Wal- Marts have/had "Moonlight Madness" sales around the holidays but mine did. Basically we'd stay open until Midnight or 1am and have these Red Light specials. People would come in droves for this sale, standing room only- "Madness" did not even begin to cover the truth of the situation.

Anyhoo~ I'm working the sale and happen to be on my way to the back of the store when I pass the Toy Dept. just as they are having a red light special on some hot, new Barbie doll. The people swooped in like a pack of wild dogs devouring the carcass of a dead cow and I notice this one little girl, maybe 8 years- old trying to get one. She's trying to get through a pack of crazed adults- she's with her Grandmother who can't be a day under 95 and is looking on wide- eyed but obviously she's too old to get in the middle of all that.

So, I decide that of all the people there the one person who is actually a CHILD should get a Barbie. I snag the last one off the shelf and hand it to her- she's SO EXCITED. "GRANDMA! I GOT ONE!" she's grinning ear-to-ear.

She makes it a few steps away from me when this lunatic woman grabs the doll and a struggle ensues. The little girl locked in a tug-of-war with a GROWN WOMAN over a Barbie.

The woman BITES the child's arm to make her let go of the doll.

I come in from the side lines- yank the doll away from the woman and say, "I got this for HER not YOU!" and take the girl back to her Grandma.

As we reach the cart I feel a tap on my shoulder and I turn just on time to duck InsanoWoman's attempted punch to the face.

Let's just say I left InsanoWoman laying on the floor in Toys.

[AFpheonix]

good lord, I hope Insanowoman got charges pressed on her by you and the grandma

[XCashier]

good lord, I hope Insanowoman got charges pressed on her by you and the grandma

Indeed! BITING a small child over a stupid doll?! That woman needs to be locked away. Merry Christmas, bitch.

I sure hope that kid was okay. The human bite can be very dangerous (even if the biter only barely qualifies as human!)

[Lace Neil Singer]

Jeez! What a loony!

About the only toy I had that qualifies was a Tamagotchi. I had one while I was at college, there was a craze for them. *blushes* And Pokemon cards. There was a craze for them too, dammit!

[Kusanagi]

I was a fan of the Power Rangers fad back when it was big. Had all the merchandise, the Megazords, etc.

I remember reading about how people would be parking in the back areas of Toys R Us and practically maul the drivers when the trucks came in, demanding to know if they had any PR merchandise on board.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I remember pointing and laughing at the people crazed over Buzz Lightyear toys tho.

[Dreamstalker]

Yes, perhaps they are....but if you are not working at the place, it is absolutely freakin' hilarious! If you don't believe me, try it sometime at a store other than your own, and try, just try, to keep the tears of laughter from coming.

I confess I was extremely bored and slightly brain-fried from school when I did that. Now I want a Palm just so I can send Furbies into epileptic fits (bonus if I do that just when some crazed ebayer wannabe grabs a ton).

I'm still laughing at some idjit on one of my ebay boards who bought up about 400 Furbies last year thinking they'd be the next big moneymaker... I was in a store today on the hunt for confirmed hot toys (membership-only list of us sellers with a brain who bailed when the regular ebay boards got too crazed) and saw piles of those "X Knows Your Name" dolls gathering dust...that was supposed to be a sure thing last year as well.

When I'm on the lookout for said items, I'm always polite and never try to grab anything away from anyone...

[Dragon_Dreamer]

I have 2 Cabbage Path dolls as well. My sister smashed the back of the bigger one's head. He was the one my cousins stood in a 7 hour line to get for me. Someday, I'll get the hole patched. Both are currently in storage.

As for Tickle Me Elmo, a friend showed me something VERY disturbing today: http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...57809967804989

Safe for Work, at least.

[Barefootgirl]

My best friend got a Tickle Me Elmo X for Christmas (like me, she's 34). She brought it to our New Year's Eve party, and I have to say, it is the funniest thing. I love the way it falls on its face and pounds the floor My other friend's dogs were quite fascinated by it.