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Unless of course it is the kind of conversation that goes 'oh I see you are buying a pony, we have a big box of those just come in, would you like to look at them, if you buy them all we'll give you a discount' (this has never happened, but I live in hope! ).
Because I'm pretty shy and unsociable, my favourite kinds of shops are the ones where they just sell you things and don't make too much conversation . Unless of course it is the kind of conversation that goes 'oh I see you are buying a pony, we have a big box of those just come in, would you like to look at them, if you buy them all we'll give you a discount' (this has never happened, but I live in hope! ).
My other story is that I went into a consignment shop for toys and the lady asked if I had my parent with me...I told her "I'm an adult." They didn't have ponies that day anyway...
I was at a local thrift store with a cart full of ponies and was asked of i was asked the age of my childI don't even have kids lol
I'm an assistant manager at a very big Oxfam shop. My best and worst pony experiences are in the same story. Someone donated a G3 lot which had lots of ponies I wanted: Dibble Dabble, Dream Blue, Tulip Twinkle and Wind Drifter. I was really happy to have them and bought them straight away in the middle of my shift. Because the shop was quite empty, I started brushing and styling their hair between customers. In charity shops this sort of thing is fine and a lot of volunteers read books etc whilst they are waiting on the till.A customer comes up to me, laughing and says "oh those ponies aren't yours, are they?" I laugh with her and explain that actually they are and I'm an adult collector. I tell her how happy I was to have found them, and put her things through the till. She pays for them and looks at the ponies and then to me again. She says "Aren't you a bit old for them though? I've always found something really creepy about those adults who collect things like my little pony and don't take them out of the boxes". It probably shouldn't have bothered me that much, but it did in the moment. Perhaps I should just have told her that they were for a fictitious little sister/cousin/daughter etc
Quote from: Mami Tomoe on April 11, 2019, 10:46:34 AMI was at a local thrift store with a cart full of ponies and was asked of i was asked the age of my childI don't even have kids lolI have a phantom Little Niece for situations like this!
Quote from: EnaRocketQueen on April 13, 2019, 09:07:12 AMI'm an assistant manager at a very big Oxfam shop. My best and worst pony experiences are in the same story. Someone donated a G3 lot which had lots of ponies I wanted: Dibble Dabble, Dream Blue, Tulip Twinkle and Wind Drifter. I was really happy to have them and bought them straight away in the middle of my shift. Because the shop was quite empty, I started brushing and styling their hair between customers. In charity shops this sort of thing is fine and a lot of volunteers read books etc whilst they are waiting on the till.A customer comes up to me, laughing and says "oh those ponies aren't yours, are they?" I laugh with her and explain that actually they are and I'm an adult collector. I tell her how happy I was to have found them, and put her things through the till. She pays for them and looks at the ponies and then to me again. She says "Aren't you a bit old for them though? I've always found something really creepy about those adults who collect things like my little pony and don't take them out of the boxes". It probably shouldn't have bothered me that much, but it did in the moment. Perhaps I should just have told her that they were for a fictitious little sister/cousin/daughter etcYikes! It’s actually creepy she goes around calling strangers creepy. What good did she think would come of that statement?
Quote from: brightberry on April 21, 2019, 11:23:52 AMQuote from: EnaRocketQueen on April 13, 2019, 09:07:12 AMI'm an assistant manager at a very big Oxfam shop. My best and worst pony experiences are in the same story. Someone donated a G3 lot which had lots of ponies I wanted: Dibble Dabble, Dream Blue, Tulip Twinkle and Wind Drifter. I was really happy to have them and bought them straight away in the middle of my shift. Because the shop was quite empty, I started brushing and styling their hair between customers. In charity shops this sort of thing is fine and a lot of volunteers read books etc whilst they are waiting on the till.A customer comes up to me, laughing and says "oh those ponies aren't yours, are they?" I laugh with her and explain that actually they are and I'm an adult collector. I tell her how happy I was to have found them, and put her things through the till. She pays for them and looks at the ponies and then to me again. She says "Aren't you a bit old for them though? I've always found something really creepy about those adults who collect things like my little pony and don't take them out of the boxes". It probably shouldn't have bothered me that much, but it did in the moment. Perhaps I should just have told her that they were for a fictitious little sister/cousin/daughter etcYikes! It’s actually creepy she goes around calling strangers creepy. What good did she think would come of that statement?The ponies I had weren't even in the boxes as well. A completely useless and unnecessary comment if you ask me, she should have kept her mouth shut