Friends, do you ever find yourself running into Target as soon as it opens?
And when you do, do you ever walk awkwardly through their team meeting, which they choose to hold on the main aisle?
And does it ever cross your mind, since they're all standing there like a corridor, that you should run through, while they clap and the crow roars for you?
And does that thought ever come out of your mouth when you walk back through their meeting on the way to the cash registers a little like this...
"I feel like I should run through and you guys should clap for me" kinda quiet, but someone hears and chuckles??
So then you decide to run because you're sure the guy that heard you just might do it.
And you decide to do the whole- crowd roaring imitation, but halfway through as your lightly jogging making crowd noises you realize that half are paying attention to their leader, and the other half are laughing awkwardly like you're crazy?
Well if you haven't, don't.
It's not a good idea, you might come home embarrassed, never wanting to darken Targets door again.
I'm just sayin'
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That's your life tip for today.
You can thank me later.
21 comments:
I wouldn't give up Target for ANYTHING!
And thats a fact!
I WISH I could be so embarrassed at Target. We don't have one here, and the nearest one is in Kelso.
For those who were fortunate enough to be slacking off(<--read paying attention to the famous Carrot), you probably made their day.
And who are they to judge? With your midmorning Target rendezvous-(es?) Your inevitably the reason they are there team meeting or not ;)
OK so that just sounds way more preachy than it was intended, just know that I would definitely cheer and clap for you :D
Have you ever been in the middle of the grocery store and got swept up in the magic of their specially programmed radio and started singing along....loudly? Have you ever begun crooning out ballads like "Babe" by Styx and then began choreographing your own funky moves to it while waiting in line? Have you ever been embarrassed when all the employees and customers stop what they're doing to stare at you and so you stop singing only to have your cashier command that you have to "sing that song all the way through and finish what you started" and so you awkwardly giggle and try to lip sync the rest of your way through Babe knowing that the people around you are begging unseen forces to make the madness stop??!??
Yeah, me neither.
Nope. Never run the gauntlet. Instead, I wear my red shirt and khaki pants and just kind of slide into the meeting to see if I can pick up any Target tidbits on any upcoming sales, markdowns or new merchandise. Down side to that? They wrote me up for being late that day :\
*channeling Dana Carvey's Grumpy Old Man*
When I worked for PayLess, there were no team meetings. You showed up for work on time every day or you got pulled into the manager's office. You were expected to do your job or you were pulled into the manager's office. You didn't whine and complain (where anyone could hear you) or you got pulled into the manager's office. You didn't wait for no team meeting to make you feel great about your job. You showed up, and you LIKED it!
So I'm glad you messed with their meeting. They deserve it for being such pantywaists. Team meetings! Whoever heard the like!
I've walked into Wal-Mart while they were doing those ridiculous things and thought, really, is this helping? This looks like a slack-jawed, too-young-for-dentures-but-need-them-anyway convention to me! Will any of these people know where to direct me to the squirty cheese after this? Why don't they focus on important issues, like helping those poor people wandering aimlessly through the store called "customers"?
That's it, I'm stalking Wal-Mart now. Then Target. Something needs to be done about this.
I have never understood why they do those team meetings in the middle of the store--why don't they come in before the store opens and have them???
Why not do them somewhere off to the side instead of the middle of the main aisle, making it all but impossible to shop. And the ones at Walmart are priceless. The registers are backed up (all 3 of them) but we wouldn't want to let people out of their "meeting" to ring up paying customers. Even when you make actual eye contact with Chad the store manager.
I also have the store number on speed dial on my cell so that I can call customer service while I'm standing in one of those crazy lines to tell them Chad is free to run a register. Is that wrong?
Target is scheduled to open here March 4th (they announced it over a year ago!) and there will be cheering and clapping and running, if not by anyone else but me.
I hate it when that happens...
Last week Geoff and I went to the movies (yes, we were fancy at saw a movie at the theatre!) and I heard the young man behind me say something about the Harry Potter movie and I turned around and commented to him about it. He looked at me strange and then when I turned around I saw Geoff looking at me strange. But at least Geoff's look was one I see all the time...it was like, "Oh, my poor wife. She's a little crazy." I still see nothing wrong with talking to a stranger at the movies about Harry Potter. Since I am J.K's number one fan. That is what I tell her in the letters I send her every day...I should go and mail off today's right now...
You need to be there at D.I. when it opens! At least when I was at school in Rexburg they would applaud me...I haven't been to this Seattle D.I. when it opens to know if they do it or not.
Those are some great ideas from you and your commenters. I'll start using them to liven up my shopping experiences. Except for EWBL's- already do that. I've even been seen doing a little sway when singing Babe. If they didn't play songs I knew I wouldn't sing. So it's their fault.
When I read "Friends, do you ever...", I was instantly humming the song from The Music Man. "Trouble, you got trouble right here in Riverside City..." And as I read on I realized you did have trouble in Riverside City. Some crazy chick is running through the middle of corporate sanctioned meetings and making quiet cheering noises. You guys had better install a pool hall to calm things down up there.
This is why I shop at Wal-Mart instead of Target...because there is no laughing at Wal-Mart (well that and it's five miles closer).
That's a life moment that I hope is caught on video tape somewhere.
hmmm...I've never run through a Target meeting before. But I do like to tell the hostess my last name is Donner while waiting at restaurants. Maybe not original, but still funny to hear. And Shirley made me laugh!
I never get to Target early enough to crash a meeting, but I will call up this image when I need a good laugh today!
There is not a day that goes by that I do not wish that I could spray the couch down with the hose.
And running through a crowd of target employees while they cheer for you...
you really know how to make dreams come true!
I think that's too funny. If I ever happen upon a Target meeting, I will probably laugh out loud while picturing you doing a run through.
AHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA!
I love it.
I'm with Glittersmama on this one.
I haven't done it yet, but now I kind of want to.
And I hope Lauren is there with me so I can embarrass her. >:D
Oh man! Your warning came to late! I seem to always embarrass myself at the store, at work or in any other public place. I don't know what it is but I have these crazy outbursts of song and dance. I tend to do it when I THINK I'm alone in an isle or something only to be mortified that I have an audience. I blame it on Turrets!
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