Why I hate working retail during the holidays...

[NickO'Time]

On Friday the Mall in our town had at least a 45 minute wait for parking. I was working my shift at my place of work.
The Ugg boots are still hot 4 years running after Oprah made a blurb about them. ~~cough~ ~lemmings~~ cough~~

We sold these boots out at our store. We would get about 20 calls in one morning just asking for them. No exaggeration.
This one lady comes in acts like we are criminalizing her because we need the product back in condition to re-sell if she chooses to return them. Saying we are more concerned about the product then the customer.
I can somewhat see what she is trying to say, but no reason to get "bent" about it.

[tracilicious]

That's a very nice watch, the band isn't very thick. Not that I agree with your big watch=small penis analogy. I think it's just a matter of taste.

You must be impossible to buy gifts for.

[Alex]

Watches are about the only thing where I'm so picky. But of course it is a matter of taste. I don't care if other people wear giganto watches that will do dishes and tell you the phase of the moon as viewed from Mars. I just don't like them.

I'm impossible to buy gifts for because there really aren't a lot of things that I want and I make enough money that I simply buy them as the want occurs to me.

Fortunately for the people who might buy me gifts they all accept that I don't really want any anyway so they're not inconvenienced.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by tracilicious

You must be impossible to buy gifts for.

Which I'm sure helps accomplish his goal of convincing his friends that he doesn't want to receive gifts.

I'm also picky about watches, though I don't have a point-by-point list that identifies an ideal Greg watch. I just know it when I see it. Definitely prefer classy to flashy I'm not against numbers and second hands, but the size of most watches confounds me and having more dials than a steam engine ain't for me.

[Alex]

I didn't have one either, but after a day at malls with Lani having to explain why watch after watch wasn't quite right I developed one.

I knew we were in trouble when the first display case she went to at Macy*s was the Tag Hauer (a brand that epitomizes ugly watches) display.

For a while I actually bought several Disney watches since they frequently meet most of my preferences but after three failed to meet the important requirement (that is: ability for function for more than six months) I stopped doing that.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Is this too much phantom number indication for you?

[€uroMeinke]

The longest lines I saw were in downtown LA in front of the store with the giant chicken statue. I think this is a holiday tradition I am unaware of.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

The longest lines I saw were in downtown LA in front of the store with the giant chicken statue. I think this is a holiday tradition I am unaware of.

The longest line we saw was for Build-A-Bear.

[innerSpaceman]

at 9pm on Christmas Eve, no less.