Saturday, July 20, 2013

Back off, Tupperware

The kids and I spent a lovely two plus hours at the "Southern Women's Expo" show at the Expo Center today. S's middle school soccer team was selling candy and water to raise funds for their team. Well, today they only got to sell candy. Apparently they were undercutting the Expo center's water sales, charging $1.50 less, so they were forbidden to peddle the H2O today. Now, they let some ladies with a frozen margarita machine deal those out, but poor little soccer waifs were shifty and could only sell candy. Whatever. They made some $$. I look upon these opportunities as prime people watching time. There were some very interesting vendors around us, including ladies from a chiropractor's office who ate their way through the expo while offering free massages to strangers. The lady two booths down was selling combination flashlight/taser lipsticks. Every time a man walked by her booth, she zapped the taser at him. Needless to say, she did not make too many sales to the gentleman population on our watch. There were lots of kind of tacky wreath makers and nut sellers, along with lots of jewelry peddlers and scarf people. There was the required Tervis Tumbler salesman. We tried our best to find a new Hokie tumbler for the hub, but we have pretty much bought every VT style this guy offers. They had a mustache tumbler that was very tempting, but we resisted. We walked by the Tupperware booth which was hard to resist simply bacause of that darn shape sorter for toddlers that they have made since 1972. I always want to play with the blasted thing. The guy, who apparently sells with his mom, was quite enthusiastic about his product line. He did not respect the personal bubble of the customer at all. He had to explain every single product I picked up. Dude, sometimes a bowl is just a bowl.

Awaiting my daughter's return from her first trip to the lake with a friend. Yes, we are the worst parents ever. Our children have never been to the lake. Oh well. They don't seem too scarred.

Time to go play Candy Crush and lose at level 65 for the 5th week in a row. Nice.


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