any interest in beer after work?
Would love to, but I can’t tonight. Jim bought new drapes today, need to help put them up.
oooh, mister fancy-pants!
Oooh…. Drapes!
i tried to engage in home decoration this weekend. i failed! but it’s kinda a funny story.
i went to the new target by me, and picked out three big fluffy pillows for the couch. put them in my cart.
Uh Huh.
normally, putting pillows in a cart and piloting the cart to the checkout aisle is a simple operation.
however, the new target has an upstairs and downstairs and cart-escalators like ikea.
cart-escalators that *jam* like ikea
Oh right…. did we have issues?
especially when the little batwing doors that keep small children from venturing into the cart escalator knock pillows off said cart and toss them down the … thingy part ways, until the cart catches up to them and proceeds to pull the pillow under the wheels and push it there the entire length of the cart escalator
LOL
and at the end ………….. the pillow was so jammed the cart wouldn’t come out
Did you just walk away?
so i was sitting there on the floor trying to yank the pillow out so the cart would come out — while a target droid just stands there going “oh my god, you won’t believe what just happened!” to this other target droid — when ANOTHER cart comes down the escalator
needless to say cart #2 crashed into my cart, which rather effectively unjammed the pillow, and also sent me on my ass back behind the carts.
other cart gentleman is like, i’m so sorry!
LOL
target droid asks me if i’m okay and offers me a hand up. meanwhile i’m like, i’m fucking glad this place just opened so no one else is actually here
now the thing is, when i got on the escalator, i had three pillows on the cart. one pillow jammed, and one pillow was in the cart still. one pillow disappeared! where did it go?! magical pillow escalator land?!
ROFL
so i sit there trying to brush all the dirt off the jammed pillow, trying to straighten it out, like i’m still going to buy it, because i’m too chicken to go back up the damned escalator
so i drove my cart into the kitty litter aisle and abandoned the pillows
and i have no couch pillows.
That is classic
I would have just walked away from the entire thing
hehe
unfortunately, i tried to be nice and unjam the escalator
I would have yelled “I NEED AN ADULT!!!!”

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also, why is it JUST NOW occurring to me that the target droid should have turned off the cart escalator?!