Happy Monday! Also, don't forget that today is the last day to file your taxes!
My blog hit the 19,000 page view mark this week so thank you for that, you guys are obviously awesome. I wish I could high five each of you individually.
This week's blog shout out goes to my friend Lanae. A couple months back, Lanae entered the Toms Ticket to Give contest. We are pretty confident that Lanae may be a finalist of the contest. If chosen by Toms, Lanae will travel to another country to give out shoes to the less fortunate. We should find out soon if she has successfully out-voted the hundreds of other people in the contest. Thanks to Heidi and Zach, I don't see how she couldn't have won. We are proud of Lanae's dedication to the contest and to the betterment of others. Our work family is happy to have met Lanae last summer, she is truly a blessing.
And now, onto the topic at hand.
I am so sick of seeing naked customers in my store.
I get it, you don't want to wait in line for the fitting room. Sorry about your luck. It's Saturday at 2p.m. and unfortunately you aren't the only person who has decided to come to the mall today. Please don't scream at me because we only have three fitting rooms as I did not draw up the blueprints for this establishment.
Here is what I do know, I have seen more naked customers in my store in the last week than I have seen naked men in my own personal life. It's become a problem.
Last Saturday, a 30-something woman asked me to get a dress for her to try on. When I left to grab the dress and came back, she was standing ABSOLUTELY naked with the door propped open waiting for me. First off, the answer to your question is no, she was not wearing underwear. Secondly, there was a line of people waiting for the fitting room, most of which were children. All of them saw her naked body. One of her hands was being used to prop the door open and the other was just dangling by her side as if to say "no shame here." Moms were covering their daughter's eyes... the whole situation was mortifying.
Fast forward two days when I see a preteen sitting on the floor of the fitting room wearing nothing but a thong. Immediately red flagged this in my head for a few reasons. A. Since when did 12 year olds start wearing thongs? And B. She was really okay with just sitting bare-assed on the floor in a public place? Come on people.
Adjacent to the legitimate fitting rooms, there is a storage section of the store where we sometimes keep extra shopping bags and cleaning supplies. It never fails that I will find a naked man in that storage area at least once a weekend. So, here is my question to you. At what point do you walk into an area, see some boxes and a vaccuum cleaner and think to yourself "everything here checks out" before taking your pants off? No context clues have indicated that this is in fact NOT a fitting room? Poor 17-year-old Jasmine was exposed to a naked man this weekend when she walked into the storage area to get shopping bags. Next thing I know, Jasmine is saying, "Sir, please put your shirt back on... the fitting room is on the other side of the store."
It has been my experience that no matter where someone is standing, they will disrobe. Front of the store, back of the store, register, fake fitting room... anywhere. Additionally, never has anyone removed their shirt and I have thought, "Wow, look at his abs." If you catch my drift....
It needs to stop. I feel like I work at a strip club every time I accidentally see a naked shopper.
Anyways, I'm off to Florida for the week! I hope everyone has a productive one!
Here's to finding the fitting room THEN removing your pants,
Xoxo
