My two days as shopkeeper has come to an end. I’m proud to say that I sold six potholders and kept my peace while several customers did their best to ransack the quilt shop by pulling out various quilts, potholders and table runners, laying them about for all to see and then tossing them aside and grabbing something else that they could run their eyes over. After they left I quietly went about the shop picking up all the “tossed” items and putting them back where they belonged. I only missed one item–a green “Morning Star” cradle quilt that had been hanging on the wall by the door which took my wife and I (after she returned from the show) almost fifteen minutes to locate. It had been hung on another quilt rack that resided on the other end of the shop, way in the back. It has been since returned to it’s proper place on the wall.
I now call this type of ransacking “Being Walmarted”.
Tomorrow is Sunday and that means I have time to catch up on a couple posts I’ve been meaning to write so until then, thanks for waiting while I “minded the store” and wrestled with a cash register that has me convinced that it hates my guts.
Until tomorrow then…
Tags: Long Meadow Farms
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Yup — you hit the proverbial nail on the head. I used to own a CD store (plus t-shirts, hats, pins and other music paraphernalia), and that kind of stuff is exactly why I will never, ever, ever own a retail store again.
I’m glad we have people who will subject themselves to that so that the rest of us can shop, but count me out for being on the receiving end!
BTW, I love the awesome Ajax-based (I presume) plug-in that does a real-time preview as you’re typing your comment. Gonna track that one down.
Posted 28 Jul 2007 at 11:59 pm ¶Hey Scott!
Welcome to my end of things…
I tried several preview type plugins and like none of them until I came across the Live Comment Preview plugin. Works like a charm, no mucking about with code in the theme, no reloading the page and it converts all the html code such as italics, bold etc without complaint.
One thing I do recommend is to keep the default placement below the the comment form. I first manually placed the preview above the form which caused the form to jerk downward every time the preview went down one line while the commenter was typing. Very annoying.
Posted 29 Jul 2007 at 9:32 am ¶I’m almost jealous that you got to spend your weekend in a quilt shop. I know it’s hard work, but the kind of work I like.
Posted 29 Jul 2007 at 3:12 pm ¶I like the comment preview too, but haven’t been able to get Live Preview to work. I know so little about inner workings that I will have to put that project aside. I have a lot to learn.
Keeping shop is not as much work for me than it is for my wife but I don’t mind the customer service part of it. It’s being Walmarted that ticks me off. Life is a constant learning experience isn’t it? Patience seems to be main topic it tries to teach.
You can see the shop (and the chair) I was watching over (and sitting in) at http://www.longmeadowfarms.com if you’re interested in quilts and what Laurie (my wonderful lady) spends her time doing.
Live Comment Preview:
Posted 29 Jul 2007 at 9:13 pm ¶Sometimes you have to insert the code into the single.php file of your theme yourself so what I can do is load up the Traveler theme into my Wordpress “Sandbox” and get the Live Comment Preview to work and send you specific instructions as to how to get it working yourself. It’s easy to do once you get the hang of it. I’ll work on this tomorrow night.
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