Robbery

I made another attempt to visit the Sears store yesterday after work. This time I called in reinforcements, my good friend and one of my birthing coaches Annettie. I figured if we could tag team the Tasmanian toddler I could find a dress and call it a day. To state for the record I don't normally shop at Sears but I had a gift card that was burning a hole in my already empty wallet and I needed a dress for a wedding this Friday.
We went to a mall that does not have the extra glitz of a two tiered carousel. Lucky for me there were racks upon racks of clearance dresses of all shapes and sizes. I loaded up my arms with a variety of black and white cocktail dresses then headed to the dressing room. All the while Morgan is walking under the rack of dresses claiming she was in the car wash. It drives me nuts when kids are wild in a department store, mine included! I am only beginning to understand why the mothers with the monster children are in the store in the first place. They are all single parents who have no time to themselves and have stuff that needs to be done, if they are anything like me the ears are all on what their child is doing while the eye contact is focused on the clothes rack and the little old lady across the aisle with her mouth agape.
Annette decides she will entertain my cute monstrosity on the escalator while I try on eight different styles of dresses. Just as I am trying on the final dress I hear my child yelling from outside "MOM" "I don't see you", that's the idea kid. Good thing this final dress was the one I choose to purchase because I could tell the crazy was about to unleash in the all ready rambunctious angel. I made my way back to the dress aisle to make a final sweep of choices, when what do my wandering eyes should appear....the shoes! The table a football field long of shoes! ALL.ON.SALE. in my hey day I had more shoes than Pravda(not really but I can dream). Of course a black sling back three inch heal caught my eye for $9.99. Not to forget the undergarments I went there too. By this time Morgan is full steam ahead running up and down the aisles. I remind her that the store is not the playground, but damn if I had the money I would invest in a non-destructible clothing store where children could run wild for a small fee. Imagine the fun the toddlers could have swinging from the round metal racks and wiping their nose against the bottoms of old dresses no-one will buy. The Mom's could all sit around drinking coffee and admire each others shoes!
I make my way to the checkout to notice a small display of accessories, pins, headbands, earrings and such, what the heck I will see how much this cute flower pin is too. As the young girl dressed much more fashionable than me behind the counter rings up my order she scans the tag of my dress already at a ridiculously low price of $24.99 she smiles and says $12.49, "WHA" no way I never get that lucky. My undergarments were also half price and my cute accessories tagged at $9.00 were 99 CENTS! Morgan then looks at me and before she could speak I "ssshhh" her and tell her "not now mommy is robbing Sears"! not really but the prices the cute checkout girl was given me were a STEAL! after I used my gift card of $30 out of pocket I paid $10.43. Gotta love the feeling of a great deal.
We left the store an outfit in hand with accessories and not one mention of a carousel ride! So I let Morgan buy a giant super-ball and throw it around the mall just to get her excitement out!