It's Official!
Baby Gabriel now has eyebrows. Or at least the beginning of eyebrows, which is an improvement on his inherent and total lack of eyebrows when Mel & I last saw him.
In other news, the new seasonal kiosk in the mall has finally arrived. Instead of us selling debatably kitch/filler presents, we are now presenting onlookers with a wide variey of scarves, mittens and hats that resemble a bunch of skinned Muppets. Well...in all honesty, we only have half a kiosk selling Muppet-skin winterwear. We're still waiting for the rest our merchandise to arrive, so the other half of the kiosk is pleasantly void of anything.
And what, might you ask, would make my pleasure in this new kiosk complete? My answer is simple: the curtain and its track, a jerry can of gasoline, a match, five minutes and an alibi. Now I don't want to gripe. Far be it from me to sound like I'm whining, but I always thought that when they put together these kiosks, they would...you know....actually assemble it correctly. But it appears we have that special "not allowed to play with edged paper" sort of kiosk. In short, there are parts of the track not connected to the kiosk frame, the curtain won't line up with the border of the kiosk, there's a screwhead in the track preventing any part of the curtain from moving past it, and there are gaps in the track large enough for the curtain rollers to actually fall through.
I suppose I should be thankful, though: from the sounds of it, the same guy who put our kiosk together also tried to assemble another one in a different mall. And that kiosk was not only put in crooked, but also put in the completely wrong place.
Today's Lesson: prioritize. Put together a kiosk, and
then get drunk. While doing it in the reverse order will make things interesting, it will also make employees homocidal.
posted by Phillip at 9:22 PM
