The Slip

Thanks for letting me in, sweetie. I asked Ruth to let me in on the blog so I could tell the story about the slip.

So on Saturday night Ruth and I went out. We were going to go see a movie but there was no parking and by the time we would have parked and made it to the movie it would have started. So we went to plan B. We went back to the mall (Ruth's entry) mostly to pick up Emma's purse that she left in the food court. While we were there Ruth wanted to find a slip for Emma in JC Penny. I tagged along as she walked through the little girl section. No slips to be found. Ruth went and stood in line at the check out to ask the young man behind the counter where she might find a slip. Just a side note...from where I was standing I had a pretty good idea that he was going to be clueless. Let me describe him. Drew Carey glasses, rainbow striped shirt, black knit tie that was square on the bottom (totally 80's), tan slacks. The shirt was what screamed, "I only know how to run a computer, so don't ask me to find something". Ruth asked anyway, "Do you carry slips for little girls?" The look was priceless. I laughed out loud. He didn't know what it was. He even went to the other computer and looked up "slip". He mumbled something to Ruth and pointed to the little girl section and helped the next customer.


When I saw the look I walked to the little girl section when I saw someone folding clothes. Another guy. I asked him where slips might be. Again a priceless look and he said, "Do you mean sandals?" Again I laughed out loud and said thank you and we walked away. We laughed all the way to Mervyn's.

Ruth walked up to the first woman she came to and asked the question again. Again we were dumbfounded...she didn't know what it was either. She walked us to the little girls section and started walking through. Ruth finally found them. I had not laughed that hard in a long time. Two things I learned while working with H.O. Sullivan in retail: A) If you are going to work in retail you have to know your products and where they may be. And 2) Please dress so people will at least believe you may know where things are.

And that is all I have to say about that.