Day off. The store is closed on Sundays—mercifully—couldn’t work if I wanted to.
Keeping a bookstore diary is bringing home to me how intense my workplace is!
Did I not know? I guess I did, but jotting it down day after day brings it home, how relentless it is. Always something fun, always something not fun.
Yesterday, not-fun:
Mr Furniture [sort of amazed]: I just saw my grand-baby’s daddy.
Me: Were you happy to see him? You’ve always said he’s a nice guy.
Mr Furniture: Yeah, that’s why I’m surprised. He’s out there slinging drugs.
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The other day here on the blog, I’d flippantly said we’d do better selling drugs (because of our poor mainstream retail management). That was wrong of me.
My coworkers vehemently HATE drugs. (Weed is not drugs.) They have seen what they do and would never joke about them like that.
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Fun thing: I was musing about buying the lamp with a coworker.
“Get it!” she said. “You know Mr Furniture would knock it down for you.”
He would. He’d never have priced it so high in the first place—he doesn’t care about Mid-century modern, and neither do most of our customers—they pay more for IKEA (looks nice, falls apart—no one’s going to be selling 60-, 70-year old “vintage IKEA”.) I’m pretty sure Asst Man priced this, but he’d give me a break too.
Also fun—more vintage photos! I’m framing some of them to display better at work—no names, no dates…
Here’s your Sunday homework, blog friends, should you choose to accept it: go jot dates, places, and names on the back of your photos. Start today!
3 comments:
fabulous lamp at any price!! It would be hundreds here!
The photos are incredible , so under priced for how lovely they are.
buy the lamp!!! my parents had one similar which i regret not taking as it is so hard to find a floor lamp that looks good and will last longer than a year.
i had my dad and grandfather name family persons in photos and so glad i did. there is no one left that i know that can help on that side.
kirsten
THANKS, LINDA SUE & KIRSTEN:
If the lamp is till there tomorrow when I go back to work, I'm going to buy it.
(If not, so be it. It's been around at least one week.)
the photos are a little heart-breaking, but people who buy them love them, so there's that... at least they aren't in the garbage!
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