Dolphin Drama

Who does not love the movie "Pretty Woman"?!?! Seriously. You all should. And have a lot of the lines memorized.

I know there are a select few of you out there who are smirking and saying to yourself "I hate that movie!" There are three possible options for your response:

1- You are lying to yourself. You know you have seen it one on of those Julia Roberts TBS marathons and you secretly love it when the store clerks finally let her shop.
2- Somehow, whether living under a rock or being very busy, you ahve missed seeing this movie altogether. For you, one word: NETFLIX.
3- You are one of the 100 people in the world who genuinely do not like this movie. For you, I inwardly sob and forgive you. You should also probably just watch it again.

So. Back to why I brought this movie up in the first place. One fo the best scenes in this movie is when Julia Roberts has money from Richard Gere to buy a cocktail dress and she goes into a store filled with eviiiiiiiiil and grumpy clerks who will not let her shop there. One of the classic quotes in this scene comes from one of the clerks who gives Julia Roberts the "once-over" and says in an ice queen voice, "I don't think we have anything for you." Gives me shivers just thinking about it!

I thought this was a purely fictional scenario, until my sister and I experienced something similar at the mall on Black Friday. Megan needed to get a present for one of the girls she disciples---some sort of dolphin jewelery. This was an inside joke between the two of them, and Meg and I thought it would be pretty simple to find. So we head into the Icing store. For those of you boys who are out of touch, the Icing is NOT a bakery, but a teenybopper jewelery store. Everything in it is plastic or metal and none of it tastes remotely like a baked good.

We go in and Megan asks one of the employees if they have any dolphin jewelery. Rather than politely saying "no", this woman and one of her henchwomen decide to be snotty! The woman gets this astounded look on her face and looks over at her co-worker. "Dolphins?! Um, no, we don't have anything like that here. Right?" #2 wholeheartedly agrees with her and adds, "Yea, we haven't carried dolphins for at least 2 or 3 years......" Then the two go on to list about 4-6 SADSACK stores that we should probably try if we are to find any of this alleged dolphin jewelery. Both Megan and I walked out of their with out tails between our legs feeling like tools. I honestly felt like Julia must have felt!

There was also a Claire's in the same mall, so we went in there prepared to add that the dolphin jewelery was for an inside joke. We were definitely expecting the worst, especially since the two stores are stinking identical except for the name. Amazingly, the people there were soooo nice and they TOTALLY had dolphin stuff in there!

(Seriously, even if I had gone in there asking for a large Cystal Brooch in the shape of a T-Rex, a smart store clerk would show me the dang brooch for the sake of making a sale!)

Like most girls, Megan and I felt an immediate allegiance to Claire's and wanted to confide in them about the snotty employees from the Icing. Turns out, the stores ARE owned by the same company, so in some sort of weird way the Icing DOES sell dolphin jewelery! SO THERE!

Unfortunately, Megan and I did not go back into the offending and give them a taste of their own medicine like Julia does in the movie. We probably got hungry.