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  • Next time, try buying your pumpkin EARLY!

    If this is my first taste of what holiday madness is going to be like, I'm absolutely dreading Thanksgiving and Christmas... *shudder*

    Had a very unpleasant woman who growled at me about the store not having any more dry ice and pumpkins. As if it's my personal fault that the joint sold out. As if I have any control over it. As if I give a flying you-know-what in the first place. "I'm never coming here again!" (Yeah. Right. If only, lady...!)

    Then there was a dude who also whined about there not being any more pumpkins because "she's gonna be mad at me" ('she' ostensibly being the guy's wife, I'm assuming) and then half-jokingly asked if he could use my name to blame it on. Moron.

    Add in an assortment of crapstomers who were just plain annoying and stupid - if I had a buck for every one that came through my line going "oh, I forgot my saver's card so here's my phone number" and then proceeded to fire off said number faster than my fingers could type it in so I had to repeatedly ask people to repeat themselves, I'd be rolling in dough tonight - and there racks up another craptastic day as cashier for me.

    Note to the pumpkin-whiners: next time try buying your stuff EARLY instead of waiting till the last minute. That is why *I* have a big-ass pumpkin (bought at my workplace, no less!) awaiting my carving skills, and you don't. HAHAHAHAHAHAA.
    ~~ Every politician that opens their mouth on birth control only proves that we need more of it. ~~

  • #2
    Quoth Amethyst Hunter View Post
    "I'm never coming here again!" (Yeah. Right. If only, lady...!)
    Heh, when I hear that, I sometimes said, "Thank you" and smiled. I haven't called any of them on it if they came back, but I was tempted.
    "They say that ignorance is bliss. But making fun of ignorant people is also pretty blissful." --Steve of collegehumor.com

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    • #3
      I don't understand why you would wait until the last minute to get some of this stuff anyways. Some stuff I can understand-for example, I just got some chocolate bars today. But a pumpkin? That's a little harder to find. Plus, wouldn't you want to have brought it a week or two ago, so that you could proudly display your mad carving skillz?
      I pray for the strength to change what I can, the inability to change what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference -Calvin, Calvin & Hobbes

      Being a pessimist and cynical wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't right so often!

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      • #4
        And speaking of Mad Carving Skilz

        http://www.extremepumpkins.com/
        "First time I ever seen a chainsaw go down anybody's britches,"

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        • #5
          I picked up a pretty nice pumpkin last Tuesday at the grocery store. They still had plenty of them but I couldn't tell you if they still do. On a side note, it's a very nice pumpkin. It really has some character. I know alot of people look for a perfect surface, but I think my mom got me hooked on finding pumpkins with blemishes.

          I generally don't carve my pumpkins until a couple of days before or the day of Halloween. I might even pick up a few extra tomorrow (the guy who owns the local pumpkin patch is the father-in-law of one of my sister's best friends).

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          • #6
            Be safe.... our nextdoor neighbour stabbed himself in the hand last year while carving a pumpkin. Get this, AFTER he told his daughter to let daddy do it!
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            • #7
              For the 6524825548603654674th year in a row, I didn't buy a pumpkin. Do I care? No. I'll be working tonight, anyway.
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              • #8
                I carve pumpkins by hitting them with a 308.
                "Magic sometimes sounds like tape." - The Amazing Johnathan

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                • #9
                  Quoth Crosshair View Post
                  I carve pumpkins by hitting them with a 308.
                  Well, I'm sure that works well . . . and how do you display it? All over the wall?
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                  • #10
                    Quoth karma_gypsy View Post
                    Well, I'm sure that works well . . . and how do you display it? All over the wall?
                    Carving it IS the display.

                    /BTW, a 22-250 works good on the little ones.
                    "Magic sometimes sounds like tape." - The Amazing Johnathan

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                    • #11
                      Oh, the amount of people who came to our place for pumpkins near closing on Halloween...

                      "Are these all the pumpkins you have left?" they whined in a tone that made you aware they were not pleased with the choice left.

                      "Would you consider buying one tomorrow?"

                      "Well, no..."

                      "In that case, I'm glad that's all the pumpkins we have left."

                      We always had some left over. I once had about a half-dozen tiny ones I carved out and wore as a long necklace (went down to my navel). Doesn't take much to amuse me.

                      Rapscallion

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