Freebie Favors!

My mother, Miss Crab Cake and I were walking back to the car in Santa Barbara when I saw a shoe store that was having a going out of business sale.  I suggested we go in which Mom and Ms. C had no problems with.  After about 10 minutes, both Miss C and I had each found a $100 pair of shoes for less then $30 bucks.  Mom mom was trying on some shoes when the salesman who sold us the shoes came over and gave me a few black boxes.  He said, “Here, have a few of these.  We are going out of business and I have thousands of ‘um.”  I was curious so I opened the box to see what our parting gift was.  It turned out to be a nice key chain compass with a whistle.  Miss C saw it and jumped at the opportunity to get some more.

She looked at the sales guy and said, “Well, since you’re trying to get rid of them, can I have 200?”

He looked at her strangely as if to say, “Did I just hear you right?”

She continued.  “No, really, we are getting married in six months and it’s going to be a compass themed wedding and we can use those as gifts!”

The guy nodded, disappeared behind the counter for a minute, and returned with 100 compass key chains.

She smiled and said, “No, really, I need 200.”

So he took a deep breath and turned back around to get another 100 compass key chains.  He came back and placed two more boxes on the seat.  He looked at them and said, “Looks like you’ll need another bag.”  So as he turned to go get it, Miss C followed him and said, “Can I get another 50.  You know, just in case we have more people come then we planned for.”

At this point, he was totally on board with us.  I mean, he had to get rid of the key chains, and we were taking 250 of them off his hand.  Mom bought her shoes, and we left with about $300 worth of shoes and 250 compass key chains in three bags all for under $100.  What a deal, huh?  Talk about right place right time!

- Mr. CC