Woe betide ye dealing with Crate & Barrel's returns department. I despaired of repacking my accidentally-Eurotrash limonade glasses in the unnecessarily complicated mechanism they arrived in, so THE DAY AFTER that post, I ran them to my nearest C&B store to rid myself of their tackiness. I can't even begin to relate what I went through with their cashier despite having several receipts and having purchased these monstrosities less than a week earlier. In short:
"Sure, you can return these, no problem!"
[stares at register for forty seconds, unmoving]
"No, I'm sorry, you'll need to mail these."
"But it says right here on my receipt--"
"You'll need to mail these, ma'am."
[Repeat above exchange X4]
[Our Heroine leaves line in a huff, walks to next register, and switches on her thousand-wattest smile]
"Hiiiii, these are for a wedding gift and I'm so afraid they'll break in the mail! Could you wrap them for me?"
So I leave the store, with a freshly wrapped box, MAIL THESE EFFING GLASSES BACK MY DAMN SELF, and only just today received my exchange prize....which was so worth the wait. Which, as, you can see, is Saying Something.
I don't even like seafood, but aren't these TERRIFYING? I almost tagged this post "wearable awesome", such is my love.
They're coming for you in your own kitchen!
I must have those.
Posted by: The Great Barstoolio | 2008.09.23 at 02:02 PM
When I signed up for Tuesday I had Sunday and Monday off. Now I have Wednesday and Thursday. And I'm gettin' married this weekend, I promise I'll be back, but anyone want to switch days?
Also those towels are the stuff of drawn butter drenched horror. In a good way.
Posted by: Cara | 2008.09.23 at 10:43 PM
At this point, I feel pretty safe in saying you can post whenever you want and no one will complain.
Posted by: Holly | 2008.09.24 at 08:34 PM