I took the boys to go buy some shoes today. We walked into the store and it was packed! We had to sign up on a sheet so that we could queue up for someone to help us. We were there for about ten minutes when it was clear to me that my children were not going to wait quietly so we headed out the door and went to the toystore a few doors down for a few minutes. I figured if our names were called while we were at the toystore it was our loss and we would just come back another day-no big deal. After playing for a short while, we went back to the shoe store and we were still at the same spot on the list, but I figured we must be getting closer. Certainly the people before us should be close to finishing up. We waited about another ten minutes or so and I looked at the list-our names had been marked off, but no one had called our name. Time is money. We left. I was ticked that I had wasted AT LEAST thirty minutes of my morning waiting to buy shoes and then we got skipped on the list. Maybe we’ll try again tomorrow since we’ll be in that neck of the woods anyway. Maybe we won’t even go back to that store…I am still a little ticked.
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UPDATE: We went back later on tonight…there was no sign-in sheet because we were the only people there…we finally have shoes.