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Thursday, 12 June, 2008

How to Blow a Sale With an Infertile

While trying on an array of fun, colorful sneakers...

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She: Do you have kids?

Me: Nope.

She: Then I have the PERFECT shoes for you! These shoes JUST came in and I've been TOTALLY coveting them. They're this high-heeled wicker sandal thing - so sleek, so sexy, you'll just LOVE them! And they'll TOTALLY suit your feet.

Me: Sure, yea, what the hell.

[few minutes later, shoes on, modelling them in front of the mirror...]

Me: You were right, they're really quite cute! How come YOU don't own a pair?

She: Oh, *I* have kids, so I'd just NEVER get a chance to wear this kind of shoe. But YOU, without kids? Oh, you'll just have SOOOO many great oppportunities to wear them out! I mean really, can you imagine me running around after my 2 young ones in a high-heeled sandal? Not really an *appropriate* shoe for a mom right?

21 comments:

momofonefornow said...

My response is arghhhh!

Kymberli said...

Not-for-running-around-after-two-year-olds-shoe, meet the rear end of one said shoe saleswoman.

Chris said...

I'm betting she looks really funny right now, chasing after her kids, with a high healed sandal wedged sideways up her left nostril.

PJ said...

Laughing at Chris' comment!

I'd have to whack her upside the head. :)

theclam said...

Silly tart... hope she falls over running after her kids and her feet swell up too much for her to even *think* about those shoes.

Lori said...

Good one, Chris!

Bee-atch (the saleswoman, not Chris).

This vignette definitely belongs in Pamela Jeanne's book.

Jen said...

Well as my friends Stacy and Clinton would tell her, kids should never be an excuse not to be fashionable. But I digress. How does she look now, as I assume that she walked away from the conversation with a shoe shoved up her ass?

Kim said...

You should have shoved that beautiful shoe up her mom ass.

Kim said...

Did you bitch slap her?

Amber said...

You get to wear high heals AND you get to sleep in. What's the problem? (OK, totally being sarcastic here).

Dude, I'd wear birkenstocks for the rest of my life if I could have another kid. (No offense to the Birkenstock wearers).

DC said...

What a b*tch!

OK, I am DYING to know the REAL answers to Truths and Lies!!

serenity said...

Bitch.

**susy** said...

What a moron...

did you get the shoes though? It shouldn't matter whether you have kids or not.
Again, she's a moron.

luna said...

what kymberli said. what a dumb beotch.

Deathstar said...

You never mind her. She had no idea that you would have given up Manolo Blahniks for life if you had to so you could be a mum like her. I'm curious, did you buy the shoes?

Joanna said...

Im down with the bitch slap too...

Pamela Jeanne said...

Ah, the anecdotes are endless, aren't they? We need to take this show on the road! The comments here are brilliant...well done, ladies!

Geohde said...

Oh so tempting to resort to physical violence....sometimes!

J

BethH6703 said...

What a shame that her case of "foot-in-mouth disease" comes with the awful complication of having "sensible mom shoes" wedged into said mouth. I'm sure Geodhe could detail the additional care required for the treatment of that unfortunate complication.

....walking away shaking my head

My Reality said...

I would shoved the shoe up her ass.

SAHW said...

via NCLM...she was doing well...till the end...hope she learned her lesson lol.