This is a year of firsts for my daughter. First Halloween, first Thanksgiving, first Christmas, first everything! So of course she has to have outfits for every occasion. She has Halloween pjs, a ghost shirt, and an outfit that says "Mommy's under my spell". As for Christmas, I can't even count all of the outfits she has. She'll be wearing them the whole month of December. The only holiday she doesn't have an outfit for yet is Thanksgiving, which they do have, I've seen them but have been putting it off until after Halloween. Although now, even though its not yet November or Halloween for that matter, there are no outfits left. Maybe one or two in a store but as usual, not her size. So maybe she won't have a Thanksgiving Day outfit. Its just crazy they put everything out at the same time and before its even the month of the holiday they're sold out. And they're probably not ordering more. Even the Halloween costumes are practically all gone. I'm just happy I got her early in order to make sure I got her size.

It Pays To Complain

Coming from a small town. You would expect the restaurants in it to be good. I live in Spring Lake, a very small town and I must admit some of the fast food places in it are awful. I would rather drive to a neighboring town than eat at McDonald's, Subway, or Burger King in Spring Lake. I'm not sure if its the workers or the management but your food is either wrong, awful tasting, or takes forever to get.

One experience sticks out in my mind whenever I think of the Subway in Spring Lake and always causes me to go to the Fruitport store. I was on a Subway binge for a few weeks and decided to go to the local Spring Lake one. I walk in and it is very busy but all I can hear the employees complaining about working. There are only three people behind the counter but only two are taking orders and running the cash register, the other is making a sub for herself, which is actually holding up the line. I patiently wait, anticipating my grilled chicken sub and ask for it to be toasted but not too much because I don't want it burnt. The employees are very rude and you can tell they're just annoyed to be working. I get home and go to eat my sub and the chicken is so burnt its brown, the bread is so bad it crumbles when I try to break it off. I was so disappointed I decided to e-mail the general manager and complain.

I actually received an e-mail back from the manager apologizing and asking for my address so he could send me some free sub coupons. I was shocked. I had expected at the most an automated e-mail, but that wasn't the case. Needless to say, the Spring Lake Subway was not where I used my coupons.

Do People Not Work During the Day?

My mother and I recently went shopping on a Wednesday. We went to Younkers, Kohls, and a few other various stores. The reason we went was for their sales that started that day. We shopped from about 12:00-2:00, thinking this is a time when no one should be shopping, everyones at work, it won't be very busy. Except it was just the opposite!! Everyone was there snatching up all the sale items, it was crazy!! It made me think, what job do these people have that they can get out to shop all day? Will someone please tell me because I want that job!! I know they were all out because of the sales that had started, but what about waiting until after you get out of work? Did they just take the day off to enjoy their shopping experience?

This also gets me thinking about why businesses such as these start their sales on a Wednesday, right in the middle of the week. Why not start it at the beginning of the week like Monday? Or the beginning of the weekend, such as Friday or Saturday, when people don't have to work and they have the time to go shopping? Is this some marketing tool that they use to get people to come into their store more during the week?