Holly Cr@p it must be xmas!!
Lets face it the holiday season is here!
One way to tell is how full the parking lot is at Target (pronounce it the way you want). Another way to tell is how stupid people are that work at Target. I’m not talking about the regular Target employees, I’m talking about the holiday staff! One can the difference by their disrespect for customers and their lack of general common sense. They will hire just about anyone who breathes!
Let me start by what I saw as I was walking from our Jeep to the store.
The weather here in Washington is changing once again to the warmer rain, the heavier rain, the gloom and doom rain, the 3pm dark as 7pm rain. A lady from Target with a fresh red vest on was steering her cattle of about 35 carts towards the front door with one of those marvelous electric cart collectors, all you need to do is steer it to the door push it inside and hit the red button before it crashes into the customers. She was creeping across the parking lot in extra slow speed, it was like watching the little engine that could. For some reason she starts talking to a costumer who is leaving the store with a handful of packages and forgets why she is out in the parking lot in the first place!
Oh what a No-No! Instead of guiding them into the store the carts slowly went towards a mother and child, I thought I was watching the “Matrix” it all happened in super slow motion. In addition, the mother and child were not looking where they were walking, they were staring down a car that almost hit them. 3 seconds probably passed (if not more) and everything sped up in time. The employee figured out her carts were still moving, the mother figured out she were not looking where they should be and BAM, Boom SCRAAAAPE….the carts crashed into the “Do Not Enter Door”, the child stumbled right into the red carts and the car that almost hit the mother and child hit the electric cart pusher. Well it did not stop there! The electric cart pusher tipped over and started to move on its side. The carts looked and act like a giant scarlet snake and began to move towards the car that hit it. It reminded me of a Boa Constrictor slowly wrapping around its prey. OH it didn’t stop there!
Instead of hitting the Large red button, “The Big Shinny Red Button”, the employee tried to right the cart pusher which resulted in what looked like a strange rain dance. Finally someone from inside, with a blinking Rudoff the Red Nosed Reindeer Button, came out to help and hit the shinny red button. The rain came down hard at point. Proving that the rain dancer truely understood what she was doing. Unfortunately we don’t need anymore rain.
I must say it put a smile on my face watching the whole ordeal evolve into a mess of twisted plastic, a screaming child and a wild out of control electric cart machine reeking havoc in the Target parking lot. Ah what a sight to see. But I couldn’t wait any longer and see how the whole story unfolded. I had a mission, buy a candle, some red socks and a few calendars.
Why do we stress so much this time of the year? Next week I think Ill pour myself a special coffee (wink wink) and sit in the coffee shop and watch it all unfold again and again.
Happy Holidays and may Peace find your heart.
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