Monday, February 18, 2008
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Last week I called a local toy store that's reputed to be wonderful, to see if they would be open today. The owner said yes, definitely. I expressed my pleasure because I've never been there before and have been looking forward to going, but their hours are 10-5 all week when I'm 70 miles away gathering rosebuds, bread and bacon. So just to clarify, I asked whether for sure they'd be open since it would be President's Day and she said, oh yes, because it's a big shopping holiday. I said see you then, then, and she said something along the lines of indeed.

I picked up my friend at 2:30 and drove the ten or fifteen miles and . . . you guessed it: it was closed. No sign on the door, no note saying how sorry they were but they were closed on account of no one could work because everyone wanted to stay home and recite the Emanciation Proclamation followed by James Polk's inaugural address followed by Roosevelt's declaration of war followed by homilies about George Washington. No, they simply were not open.

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Blogger ligneus — at 8:11 PM, February 19, 2008:
It's because too many people are robots, programmed to function at a very basic level, throw in a little variation like President's Day and it doesn't register, all they hear is Monday and their program says 'Monday-Store Open'.
Which explains how Obama can get to where he is while saying nothing.
 

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Blogger Laura — at 3:21 PM, February 20, 2008:
You might want to share this experience with the owner or manager. If it happened to you, similar things will (or have) happened to other customers. If they are very good about customer service, they might even do something nice to make up for the inconvenience...you never know. :)

How frustrating!
Best wishes,
Laura
 

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Blogger Mark — at 10:05 PM, February 26, 2008:
Your hard line of questioning caused her to mention it to the manager, which spurred him or her to re-think this whole "open on Presidents' Day" thing, and subsequently swell with patriotic pride, thereby closing the store to honor all who have worked so hard to lead this country.

Or something like that.

Saw your link to me on a Blog Jump post you did. I haven't dropped by here in a while, probably because your blog doesn't render well in Firefox (the words for the posts don't show up at all, actually). But that's no excuse!
 

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