September 27, 2002

• Doin’ the Friday Happy Dance

  
  

  I have a story from last Saturday of a little incident that happened after we attended the Life Celebration for our life long friend Charley.

  
  

  There is this wonderful shop in Rocklin, (about 2 hours) from us and on the way to Reno called Pottery World.  They have all sorts of pots  as well as statuary on the outside and wonderful fufu interior designer stuff inside.  Well….of course we went to possibly gets some pots for the new deck.  Now keep in mind it was about 103 degrees outside so it was HOT.  As the 3 of us are walking up and down the isle’s nothing was jumping out and saying buy me!  Until we were on the last row of pots.  I like different things….well, towards the end of the row there was 2 pots sitting on top of each other and all the way in the back.  The rest of the rack was empty…they had sold all the others.  These pots were very different for terra cotta, they were from Vietnam.  They kind of resembled an urn, and had the raised impression of an olive branch.  They were pretty good size pots and were $30 a piece.  I had my husband reach over and pull the one down that was on top, they were about 2 ft tall.  We examined it and it was fine, no cracks.  So I asked him to pull down the other one so we could examine it as well.  I need to mention here, as we were examining the first pot a guy (I will not call him a gentleman) walked by, looked and us and walked around to the other side.  I did not see him or what he was doing, but we had encountered him and his wife a few isle’s back.  She was bitching and complaining that it was too hot and that she wanted to leave.  Well…after my husband pulled down the 2nd pot and we examined it, he left me with the pots (remember I said there was only 2) so he could go get a cart to load them on.  While I’m standing there up comes this couple.  The guy looks and me and says your standing next to my pots!!  I said I don’t think so, my husband has just gone to get a cart for these.  You did not pull them down or have anyone watching these pots.  His wife from the rear holding a piece of paper in the air and yelling out “I have a receipt, I paid for those pots”.  I couldn’t believe it….I told them that possession is 9/10 of the law and I was the one that pulled the pots down, checked them for damage and that they should go get their money back because they were mine!

  
  

  At that point I had to listen to the wife begin to scream that those pots were hers, that she had a receipt for them.  At that point she yelled at her husband to pick them up and place them on the cart because she had a receipt for them and they were hers. 

  
  

  Well….they had about a 3 to 4 year old child with them and I was not going to stoop to their level and become a raving lunatic in front of this child.  I walked away.  It was tough believe me, I don’t know how people can be so obnoxious and inconsiderate.  If they had looked at the pots they would not have put them back on the shelf the way they were. 

  
  

  I went and asked a salesperson if there were more pots…I was told NO, special shipment in from Vietnam….don’t usually get those and not sure they have any more.  They called their other store, if they have some they are 6 to 7 pallets deep and they will not get through them until sometime this week.  Haven’t heard from them yet!!!  Guess I wasn’t destined to own those pots but they sure would have looked good on my deck.

  
  

  Everyone have a great weekend.

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