LAST CHANCE FAT CHANCE!

Here is the much anticipated Last Chance story (at least much anticipated by my pretty cousins)...

In the middle of wedding week mayhem, we had a small break while we waited for more pink flowers to arrive and we knew, that was our chance to go, it was then or never.

Jennifer had never been to Last Chance and wanted to go score some good deals on some TOMS and on some Uggs before she went back to Chicago. So on the way over there I prepped her for the adventure she was about to embark upon...

- We must be there before they open or there is no point to going...
- Stay away from the ladies with strollers, they will slow you down and get in your way...
- DO NOT stop to grab a bag or a cart, if you can grab it while you walk, that's ok, if not, keep moving....
- Grab every shoe you see that is TOMS, you can sort through it later, if you stop while grabbing to check, you will miss the rest of the good ones before they are gone....

She got the idea. We had a plan. She was going to go down one size aisle and I was going to take the other size and we would keep scouring the shoe racks until we were all done and then meet up to go over our loot! (I must say, I prefer buying my TOMS from TOMS online or from Nordstroms, it a lot less hassle and I get exactly what I want, on the other hand, there is a sick rush that goes through me when I get a pair from Last Chance and I realize I got the size I want, the price I want and I beat out those other suckers, or at least the people trying to buy them to sell them on ebay or whatever).

The doors opened, we filed in, we were able to grab some bags and we were off. I found a couple of pairs that would work for her, but nothing for me. She scored several pairs of Uggs and several pairs of TOMS. As we sat there and went through them, double checked sizes, made sure they were in good condition, etc I saw a worker lady come through with a big bin of shoes and I saw several pairs of TOMS in there and noticed that one of them was the size I wanted. I asked her with a lovely smile on my face, "Can I have this?" With an evil eye shot right back at me she said, "NO!" Then the security guard came up and roped off the aisle and in a stern tone told everyone to quit staring, keep shopping, if you stand there you will have to leave, etc.

I turned around and started talking to Jen again and helped her figure out which shoes would work for her needs and then I saw two little 20 somethings come out from the aisle next to the roped off aisle with a couple of pairs of TOMS each. They went right over to who I assume is their mom and she asked, "how did you get those!" The smile stretched out across their face and said, "We almost got kicked out!" and then they kept talking and walking and I missed the rest of the conversation.

Being the genius that I am, I figured out what they did. They went to the aisles next to the roped off ones and reached their arms through and took the new TOMS they wanted! Wow, they were genius, not me. I saw the pair of red wedges that I have been wanting, actually I just wanted a pair of red canvas classic ones but the wedges were even better. They were my size. I had to have them.

I looked at Jennifer and said, "hold this, I am going in for the kill!" I gave her the shoes I was holding for her and my purse and I disappeared to the next aisle.

I looked up and down, high and low trying to make it like I was just casually shopping for shoes on that aisle. Then I came to the red wedges. They were beautiful. Brand new. My size. Seriously, could it get any better?! I reached my arm through, grabbed the shoes, pulled them back to me, stood up and like a freaking idiot, I looked around for the security guard, made eye contact with him and then quickly turned my head....Hi, why didn't I just look at him and shout, "Hey, I took these shoes which I know I wasn't supposed to!"

Immediately the security guard starting saying, "Hey, Hey!" I kept slowly and calming walking hoping he would quit, but he didn't. We met up at the end of our aisles and he asked, "did you just reach through and take those shoes?"
"Yes I did."
"Come with me please," and he grabbed the shoes from me and we started walking towards the cash registers. I saw Jennifer and mouthed, "I think I am getting kicked out." He walked me right up to a cashier and I thought to myself, "wow, this guy is awesome, he is going to kick me out, but he is going to let me buy these first!" Nope. He handed them to the lady and then told her to put them back in the back and then asked me to continue to follow him outside.

"Ma'am, why did you reach through there and take the shoes? We have strict rules on that you know!"

"I didn't know that, I have never seen you rope off an aisle before and I am sorry. I just wanted them for myself. I was not going to sell them on ebay. I saw the other girls do it, and I just followed right behind them."

"I am sorry ma'am, I know you aren't going to sell them on ebay, but rules are rules. I have to ask you to leave the store" Then he radios in for another lady to come outside and talk to me.

She basically says the same thing to me, but adds in, "You will have to leave our store for the rest of the day, but you can come back tomorrow." They both ended up being really nice, especially after I was nice to them and I do believe they believed me. I looked at the lady and said, "my cousin and husband are inside. I don't have my phone or anything on me. Can you please walk me inside so I can tell my husband I am out here or else he will never be able to find me."

We walk back inside and I can't find Jared anywhere, I walk up to the men's dressing room and very lame like say, "Jared, are you in here?"
"ya"
"um, I have to leave the store now, I can't come back in. I will meet you outside when you are done. Oh ya, send Eli out here and I will take him outside with me"

Eli crawls on the dirty dressing room floor to come outside with me. The lady walks us outside Last Chance after saying, "you need to hurry, I need to get you out of here," and I look at Eli and say, "hey, wanna sit on these steps with me and we will wait for daddy to finish?"

The lady was quick to inform me that those steps were still part of Last Chance, I would need to sit on the other  steps!

That's my story, I got kicked out of Last Chance for breaking the 10th commandment and coveting something that wasn't mine :(

As an update to my little story, the next week I went back with my other cousins for a girls day out and I did score my red plain canvas shoes then, so there Last Chance, take that! (Although, they really stuck it to me, cause I had to drive out there twice and spend more gas money, but whatever, I got 'em!)