over in costume land, i used to avoid the phone.  i didn’t want to deal with the stupid questions.  but in the last few days, i have jumped to answer to phone.  when you get stupid questions, you get to give stupid answers!  people always call to ask, "where are you located?"  i give them the address.  usually they already know that because they looked in the phone book.  fact:  there is a map in the phone book!  one coworker who often gets the question, "are you before or after the chik-fil-a?" always answers, "after!"  if they don’t know enough to tell her the direction they are headed, too bad.

yesterday, while about 15 people stood in line to check out and the rest of the store buzzed with people, one caller wanted to know, "what kind of costumes do you have for women?"  and "what should i dress up as?"  i did my best to kindly tell her to come and pick out her own costume because i was pretty busy, but she kept talking…really, if she needs someone to talk to, there are helplines for that.

one more:  a man came in to get a costume for his daughter who needed to dress up as a saint for school.  saints, like all other people span alot of history, folks.  while i tried to come up with creative "saint costumes"–fake eyes for st. lucy, arrows for st. sebastian…he called his wife.  she needed to dress up as saint gianna beretta molla, a doctor who died in 1962.  and she needed a costume…why?

just two more days of fun!  have i inspired anyone to skip the costumes this year?