Adam in the land of the soccer moms
Sep. 21st, 2003 07:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiSo, a co-worker informed me on Thursday that Friday was the big Glenn School Clothing sale, which is apparently the biggest children's clothing/toy/whatever sale in the Atlanta area. I figured I'd stop by and take a look to see if there was anything worthwhile for Elayna.
I headed over there at 9:15, thinking it started at 9. Turns out the doors opened at 9:30. There were about 200 people already in line. And every one of them had a fucking laundry basket (and often a spare canvas bag or two). Yep, it's one of those sales. The sorts where people mob to get everything.
Yeah. I've never been that scared in my life. Entire parking lot was filled with minivans. There were six guys there, and only two of us were stag. We were also the only two people without a basket.
It was just eerie.
The sale itself was nice. I snagged a nice hardcover Annie novel (written by the guy who did the book for the musical), a couple of other books, two long-sleeve shirts (one purple, one shades of blue), and (most importantly, in Elayna's eyes), a copy of the Highlights Puzzlemania CD-Rom. Miss Kid was happy. And since most of the psychos were looking for stuff for younger kids, I was relatively unharmed. :-)
I headed over there at 9:15, thinking it started at 9. Turns out the doors opened at 9:30. There were about 200 people already in line. And every one of them had a fucking laundry basket (and often a spare canvas bag or two). Yep, it's one of those sales. The sorts where people mob to get everything.
Yeah. I've never been that scared in my life. Entire parking lot was filled with minivans. There were six guys there, and only two of us were stag. We were also the only two people without a basket.
It was just eerie.
The sale itself was nice. I snagged a nice hardcover Annie novel (written by the guy who did the book for the musical), a couple of other books, two long-sleeve shirts (one purple, one shades of blue), and (most importantly, in Elayna's eyes), a copy of the Highlights Puzzlemania CD-Rom. Miss Kid was happy. And since most of the psychos were looking for stuff for younger kids, I was relatively unharmed. :-)