Grammar and Bad Ass

How many times can you use the word Bass Ass in a 5 minute conversation?
How many different parts of speech can bad ass be used as?

I know these questions are keeping you up late at night. I shall give you an answer...

How many times can you use the word Bass Ass in a 5 minute conversation?
6 times.

How many different parts of speech can it be used in?
3 - adjective, adverb, and noun

(adjective) You have some bad ass stuff in this store.

(adverb-describing an adjective) Do you have any bad ass 12 or 20 sided dice?

(noun) Kevin Smith is bad ass.

I am sure you can think of more, but these came from a true conversation I had 5 minutes ago with new customer. Maybe I will slip a thesaurus in his bag next time he comes in?

Our New Permenant Fixture

For the past three weeks we have had the same Ninja Kid in our store. You know the type 12 going on 42. He knows everything there is to know about everything.
Week 1, he stayed for 4 hours.
Week 2, he stayed for 6 hours.
This is week 3 and he has been here for 2 1/2 hours. The reason for the short time frame? We opened 2 hours later than normal!
Mom drops him off with no food and $20 bucks. Last week he had starburst for lunch while we ate pizza. (I am not cruel, just don't want to be sued for giving someone else's kid food poisoning.)
When he started bullying my Dear Son into getting cheats for his Nintendo game on our cash register computer, I lost it. The friend he brought with him this week "got it" and has now been trying to get him to leave for the past 20 minutes. He has to finish his level before he can leave.
If you work for Child Proective Services, feel free to drop by any Saturday and add to your caseload.


2/27/07 ****Update**** No Ninja Kid this week. Did my powers of ultimate PMS work? Find out next week!

We got "jacked"

We had these older kids hanging out. I was busily sorting the "S's". You know Spider-man, Superman, She-Hulk, Surrogates...there are a crap load of S titles. Hubby was pimping the comics hard. (Two new subscribers in one hour, not bad eh?)

The kids leave without buying anything. (The big clue we missed.)

Moments later Loyal Skater Kid comes in and says, "You know those two kids who came in? They just jacked two comics."

***Sigh***

We thanked Loyal Skater Kid and gave him another free poster.

You gotta pay off your informants. Maybe I should pay Loyal Skater Kid protection?

Or not.

Fashion vs. Business

I am in a horrible dilemma. Hubby has asked me to stop by Other Cool Comic Book Owner's store and pick up a few comic books. I just realized in horror, I am in the same dress I wore last time I was there. What do I do?
1) Go in and joke, "Yeah, this is the only dress I own."
2) Try to hit one of their locations that I haven't been seen in the dress.
3) Pretend I forgot and say, "Oh yeah, how funny you caught that?"

UGGG!!!!!



Hubby just called, I have to go to a different store and the Other Cool Comic Book Owner's wife is there, not him. My secret is safe!

Getting Ready to Go Yoko

How difficult is it to get what you pay for? So far I have been letting dear hubby run the "comic pimping" aspects of this venture. However, it seems like some industry folks can't answer basic questions. I know people are passionate about comics and do this stuff for the love of the books, but hello, I have a business to run here. I won't go into detail about the latest who can't seem to answer basic questions to protect my hubby's credibility. But I am telling you, soon I may have to start doing the Yoko thing and rear my ugly little head into these conversations.

This is your only warning gentlemen!

My Aching Dogs

My feet hurt. I stupidly wore 2 inch heeled boots to my day job. We had our holiday party and I wanted to show folks that I don't always look like something the cat dragged in.
After 8 hours of schmoozing, I had to go to Other Cool Comic Book Owner's store to pick up some stuff that sold faster than expected in our store. We are vey lucky to know Other Cool Comic Book Owner. He and his wife are always willing to help when we make rookie errors in buying. If there is comic book heaven, they have secured their spot!
Then mother-in-law drops the bomb that we must wear all black to holiday pictures on Sunday. So after picking up comics (and reading Spiderman #534 in the car), it's off the mall to buy family clothes for pictures.
Next time I decide to wear heels, I am bringing flats for the last minute stops.

Dirty Girl

Uh, I think it's time to clean the bathroom.

Overheard in our bathroom when a mom took her 3 year old daughter in:
"Don't touch that, who knows who touched it before."