I should be clear that I didn’t actually *intend* to cause chaos in Hobbycraft on Friday evening, but, well, it happened…
I hadn’t planned to go to Hobbycraft at all, I’d intended to hit up Mandors, but a meeting waaay over ran and instead of escaping at 4, like I’d planned, I didn’t get out til after 5, and there was no way I’d get to Mandors before it closed at 5:30. I hummed, and I hawed, and debated if I was really feeling like tackling the city centre this close to Christmas, when I suddenly remembered that Hobbycraft would still be open and it would have the majority of my shopping list, and certainly the priority items, namely thread and velcro.
It was the velcro that did it. I was buying a number of things by the metre – ribbon and ric rac, but it was the velcro that ultimately pushed things over the edge. Having cut and swiped everything else and tucked it away in the bag, it was time to tackle the 2 boxes of velcro – 2 different widths that is. Now normally, if I were buying this in Mandors, I would be able to get the hook and loop bits separately, but Hobbycraft sells the 2 together. If the system were working correctly, the two would feed out neatly side by side through a hole in the side of the box, but, well, that didn’t happen. The girl at the til opened the boxes, grabbed the ends and pulled. She tried to pull the loops off the 2 nicely coiled hook and loop sections, and, well, velcro did what velcro does and stuck fast together, in knots. The more she shook and pulled, the worse it became! It took the two of us the best part of about 20 minutes trying to disentangle 5m of one and 3 of the other. Here’s the 5m bit that I got to take home…
You’ll be pleased to know that about 50cm into this endeavour she decided to call another assistant to serve the huge queue that had suddenly appeared behind me, while we got to this stage, while I shot apologetic glances back at regular intervals…
Hahaha that velcro is tricky stuff! Hope the sewing goes easier 😉
It's obviously been far too long since I went into a shop and bought velcro but when I did it was joined together on the roll and didn't cause this kind of drama. Oh for the good old days
Oh sure LT, you loved every minute of that chaos, didn't you. Sure wish it had been recorded, it would be worth paying to watch you in the battle. Giggle.
Merry December 1st.
Ooh I feel your pain, I have been THAT assistant……
I swear you're in every shop I go to, because the moment I am ready for checkpout there's always a massive queue, and I can only presume that somewhere you are creating mayhem and stopping the assistants from being on the tills! … or maybe they're busy picking up all the hundreds of boxes of Christmas chocolates that were in a big display pyramid until some blind guy walked by and demolished them with a single swipe of his white cane ………
Sounds like a sticky moment.. 🙂
Oh, go girl! get Hobbycraft in a right old pickle! it is good for their souls…. Or for us to giggle over later, anyway!
Ha! I can just imagine the scene – but now I am wondering what you are going to do with 5 meters of the stuff!
Haha I have a box with both in – it's a nightmare every time I want to cut a piece!
oops!
It sounds rather funny, in the end.
Bugger…the worst part of that would have been the daggers the other shoppers were shooting at you while they waited …
Bet that girl will treat velcro with the respect it deserves from here on in!
Ha ha, oh no. I can just picture it!
Bet you were popular 🙂
Red faces all round then! Well done for keeping your cool! Jxo
A sticky situation. in more ways than one.
Hugs
Reminds me of when I knit…
I feel like you should now challenge someone to a velcro match….and that it should be videod.
Ha, velcro is my pet hate when I'm serving customers at The City Quilter – it's a nightmare on the roll with the 2 pieces stuck together – had a similar situation myself last Saturday! 😀
Too funny. Order your velcro onine next time. 😉
I demolished a table display in Waterstones once, and whilst bending over trying to "help" restack the books, my handbag cleared another table. The shop assistant whispered "just go, please". I personally thought it wasn't me but their tables were too close together!
Just buy the whole box next time I think. You'll save having a cutting scene, plus you'll never have to shop for velcro again!
LOL! That's how the sell it at JoAnns too in the states. It always ends up being a disaster 🙂
oh dear. AT Joann's they seperate it before cutting. Makes sense, huh
There seems to be a special kind of person who serves in HC, mine picked up fabric scissors four times with his thumb in the big hole and his fingers crammed into the little hole and when I felt I could suggest the other way (without laughing) he told me all the scissors they sold were rubbish!!!!
We have Spotlight in Australia which is similar. I HATE shopping there. It's always busy with a queue for miles and there is only ever one shop assistant in that department. I feel myself getting hotter and hotter as I line up there.