Bull in a china shop

Had you been at the Fresno Cost Plus World Market this weekend, you would have heard a spectacular crash coming from the glassware area.

It went on and on and on, then someone started clapping and cheering like they do at restaurants when the waiter drops a tray full of dishes.

I am surprised I have not witnessed this sort of catastrophe before. Cost Plus stacks box upon box of glassware in the aisles, then displays a sample of the glasses right on top of the box. I checked out the one that went down this weekend and it was seven boxes high, each holding 6 champagne flutes. The tower was very Dr. Seuss with the glasses perched like Yertle the Turtle atop a turtle tower.

Everyone who shops at Cost Plus knows about these hazards. The idiot who knocked it over was clearly not paying attention, probably trying to unfurl a table runner and backed into it or something.

Day dreamer.

Preoccupied moron.

Careless fool.

Oh wait, it was me.

So have you ever destroyed a store display in the name of shopping? Do tell.

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Comments

[higgie aka Roger]

LOL, Funnier when someone else does it. I went to Gottschalks one day years ago with Barb. She was buying some makeup. I sat down on one of those 3 foot high stools, made of Plexiglas, and leaned back. The back snapped off and I went over backwards and landed flat on my back. On the way down in an attempt to catch myself I threw out my arm and knocked over a rack of about 200 lipstick tubes. They went every where. A bunch of the ladies working there came running and were fussing over me. I jumped up and made a hasty retreat to the TV department. In retrospect I probably should have just lain there and did a little jerking and moaning. You will notice there are no more Plexiglas stools at Gottschalks.

[JCW]

When our former company, Elephant Pharmacy, went shopping for a new CEO they hired her from...Cost Plus.

That means that soon after she came on board rickety displays of box on top of box of product started appearing in our stores.

I warned against piling four cases of wine one on top of the other in the middle of a narrow isle - think anybody listened?

Eventually - of course - they had a mess on their hands. I cautioned that a small child could have been killed, but the practice continues to this day.

What is it with those Cost Plus idiots?

[higgie aka Roger]

Question? Not that I did this but does getting caught feeling up a female manikin in the Fresno Harley shop count as destroying a display???

[GetSheila]

Higgie: Answer: No, but it's creepy. Or it would be, had you actually done it. Good thing it was hypothetical. *snort*

[Roxanne]

OMG! I would have cracked up had I been with you. I can proudly say that as of yet, that has never happened to me. I get freaked out by those "you break it you buy it" signs hehehe.

[Jenn Bo]

I've had a dozen near misses with glass displays, wine displays, mirrors, you name it.

Fortunately, I've had either the reflexes or the watchful friend keep things safe.

[Emma]

Roxanne - I have a natural phobia to "You Break It, You Buy It!" signs. My mother insists that if every store put that into effect, I would owe roughly thirteen thousand dollars.

Because, when I was four, I went into a designer wedding dress boutique with a dripping chocolate ice cream cone. Hilarity ensues. :D

But, honestly, seven boxed high? Champagne flutes? They were asking for it.