2 posts tagged “macy's”

It was really slow at work today.  At three o'clock, I'd only sold a bottle of Hypnotic Poison and a  mascara.  Not a very exciting afternoon.  I decided that my counter needed a good scrubbin' down, since it had been a few days since I'd taken everything apart and cleaned it. (Don't think me a clean freak or anything; my counter is just built into the side of the escalator and it gets all dusty...and no one wants to wear dusty make-up.)

So, here I am, minding my own business and cleaning all eight thousand Dior lipsticks, when I notice a very small man walking around the store with an almost empty, plastic bag of those mini-sized phone books that you can keep in your car.  He took two out and set them on the Clinique counter.  He took two out and set them on the Prescriptives counter.  And then he took the last two out, set them next to me, and walked away.  I couldn't even say thank you before he was gone.

I looked around the department.  No one else had even noticed him.  Indeed, the girls at Clinique had just simply put their little phone books away, never even questioning from whence they came.  Of course, since I was super bored and all, I decided to see if anyone else thought it was peculiar.  Guess not.  Everyone just thought that the little man I'd seen was just the guy who gets paid to deliver phone books.  Way to ruin my excitement.  I'd like to think that the world isn't that banal, and that there really was some better reason for a four foot tall man to be walking around with a bag of tiny phone books. 

So, here's my challenge to anyone who may come across this blog in the next few days and be up for some imagining: I want to hear more exciting reasons that a man would walk into a Macy's with a bag of phone books and deal them out to random cosmetics counters.

Get with the imagining, people.

Reasons Why Being at Home Is Better Than Not Being at Home:

1) No one cuts you off at home.

2) You don't have to wait in line.

3) You don't have to explain 16 times to some stupid woman that her $3.00 eyeshadow case was, in fact, already returned to her Macy's card.

4)There is beer at home.

5) They aren't doing any construction at home.

6) You don't have to cover the Clinique counter.

7) There are fewer stupid people.

8) Your part-timer doesn't call in sick and leave you to do all of the counter work in twenty minutes before the regional vice-president comes to visit your counter.  In fact, there are no part-time positions at home.

9) You don't have to drive all the way to class, only to find out that class is cancelled for the evening and end up waiting in traffic for thirty minutes just to leave the parking lot.

10) There are cute boys at home.

It's been a very, very, very, very, very bad day.  I'm glad to be home.