I went to the Lindt chocolate outlet today to see what sort of after Valentine's day bargains they had. Walking toward the store, I could see lots of shelves of sale chocolate. Good sign. But then these Asian people ran in before me. I'm not talking fast Mommy walk, I'm talking RUNNING. Bad sign. They went straight to the sale rack and started throwing stuff into their baskets. There were nine boxes of truffles on the top shelf. They took 8 of them. The last one went to me because I grabbed it before they could. I didn't even know what was in it, but figured if I didn't grab it, I'd never know. Turns out, it's the best type of truffles for super cheap. Go figure. I thought about taking one from the lady's basket since she left it on the floor when she scavenged the other shelves but thought that would be unethical. Bro, it reminded me of the good ol' days in downtown Seattle when we went bargain hunting during our hour and a half lunches.
Since all the boxes of chocolates were gone, I moved on to the bags of chocolate. I wanted to know what was inside, so I asked the sales lady who said I could try one. She told me that they were the same as the truffles sitting in a bin next to them and that I could try one. The truffle-maniac lady's husband was shoveling truffles into a bag to buy in bulk and was obviously going to buy them. But after he heard the sales woman offer me a sample, he paused to ask, "What kind of truffles are these?" I wanted to say, "Well, if you don't know, why are you buying five pounds of them?" But of course, polite Krissy didn't. And the sales lady offered him a sample just as he was secretly hoping.
As if that wasn't enough, they got on their cell phones to tell their friends to come and get chocolates. I was hoping that they weren't Chinese so I could disassociate myself from them, but they were. Drat. The crowd came dashing in and all asked if they could sample. I wouldn't be surprised if they stashed some in their pockets Yee-picnic-style too.
Worse yet, they followed me to the Ann Taylor Outlet (they move fast) and started taking all the clothes in my size!!! And they even had good taste so they took the nice stuff! Aaargh! This is why I don't live in China.