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Quoth Erin View PostI'm sorry, I'm one of those that will go into the toy aisles and find the toy cars and the toy ambulances and fire engines that have the "realistic" sounds and will press the buttons on every one that I can find. More than once.
Next month when I was visiting her again there was a sign: IF YOU PRESS THE BUTTON, YOU HAVE BOUGHT THE FIRE ENGINE!
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Quoth Racket_Man View Postwe put it on the floor and it used drive our cat NUTZ cause it swung its head out and sang
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Oddly enough, yesterday or the day before America's funniest Home Videos was talking about that singing fish and played the song to a montage of people falling over in the river or getting smacked on the head with a canoe or driving their trucks into it. Wasn't a bad song but I can see why people hated it after the first two seconds.
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"Brandi" who used to work at my Aid of Rite had a fascination with the singing dancing flowers we had for Valentine's Day that played "You Are My Sunshine" in a high pitched, nasally whine. We had several behind the register, along with singing, dancing dogs and gorillas. Between customers she loved to press the buttons, and even with a customer she would press the buttons and squeal like a child and talk about "OMG LIEK HOW KAYUTE OMG LIEK 4EVA SOOOOOO KAYUTE OMG!". She would sneak into the Valentine's Aisle to press the buttons on ALL the singing, dancing whatever so we would hear them for 5 minutes, and if they stopped she would press them again. She did that to the ones behind the counter too. For my shifts whenever I worked with her I got to hear a constant barrage of "You are WHOA I Feel GOOD (Da Na Na Na Na Na) sweet it is to be loved by you *bells shaking* when you're not happy how sweet it is to be loved I feel I knew that I would *bells shaking* (da na na na na) my skies are grey like honey to bees".
This year, we have only 5 singing dancing flowers scattered over the store, and the singing dancing dog with bells on his tail is WAY up on a high shelf where no one can reach them unless they really, really stretch. The flowers play "L.O.V.E". And we only hear them go off 7 times a week because they are hidden in plain sight. They're right there on the glass cosmetic racks, but everyone goes right past them and don't notice them unless they try. And we don't have "Brandi". Sweet, sweet silence.
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In 2007, when I started, a couple days before Christmas, we had a singing bear that sang "No Place Like Home For The Holidays". He was motion activated. There were five all over the front end alone. By the end of my first day I dearly wanted to drop kick all the bears into oblivion. By the end of the second I wanted to rip off my ears.
This past Christmas I kept hearing the phantom of that damn bear and was wondering where it was until I realized it was the in store music that was playing it.
Damn bear, can still hear him 3 years later.Last edited by ralerin; 01-24-2010, 02:38 PM.Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.-Winston Churchill
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I have to admit that I have one of those hamsters that sings "Kung Fu Fighting". But I don't annoy people with, just for my own amusement on occasion. Actually, come to think of it, it doesn't even have batteries at the moment.
I've also got a frog that ribbits "Jingle Bells"....well, used to. There are no batteries in it and there never will be again. I had to take them out because it would just go off randomly on it's own....at 2am a few times. Scared the crap out of me.
Quoth hobbitt97 View PostI would throw the slammer (that shouted "NO NO NO") against the wall.
Quoth Lace Neil Singer View PostI feel your pain. When I worked at the garden centre, we carried these dancing Santas. They'd light up and sing Jingle Bells for a good five minutes.It's floating wicker propelled by fire!
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Quoth Pagan View PostWe had some that played "Blue Christmas" and would move their hips in a certain way that looked very rude from the back. I'm really surprised that we didn't have complaints about them.I almost violated rule #1.
"So, if you wanna put places like that outta business, just stop being so rock-chewingly stupid." ~ Raudf, 9/19/13
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Quoth Racket_Man View Postanything like Boot To the Head??????
I too had one of those musical "Drop Me in the Water" fish back in the mid 90's. had a light sensor instead of a button. we put it on the floor and it used drive our cat NUTZ cause it swung its head out and sangThen I switched it to sing "Rockin' Robin" and they all scattered the first time it went off.
Any day you're looking down at the dirt instead of up at the dirt is a good day.
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