Thread: To Tell or Not To Tell---a ROSS story--eek!

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I had a funny moment or two yesterday that I thought I'd share. It happened when I was in a ROSS DRESS FOR LESS store. I was in the housewares department and found this really large heavy glass container with lid (think giant food canister maybe like 2.5 gallons). It was $10.99, made by Anchor Hocking Glass and was 12 inch high and 8.5 inches in diameter with the neck of the jar opening about 5.5 inches. Always being on the look out for accessory items for my halloween settings I decided to buy it--great container piece for my Scientist Lab or something to be used in my Carnival Sideshow Oddities area. This short elderly lady was pushing her cart and commented "well you're pretty strong!" Caught a little off guard and unsure what to say I replied "yeah, it is pretty heavy glass."

I get to the checkout line and once again hear this little old lady's voice. She's behind me in line now and says something like "I really like the size of that container you're buying. That would store a lot. What are you planning on putting in it?" Now here I am once again caught off guard and think do I tell her "a human head for halloween"? My mouth drops open a bit and I'm thinking this through in my mind and just can't get the words out to honestly answer her although my mind is racing at what kind of responses she might utter if I tell her the truth! She persisted with her comments to get me to converse, saying something like "that would hold a lot of flour or rice"...Again my mind races and I picture myself saying, "I think it would nicely fit a decapitated head madam!" Maybe if she heard what I had to say her eyes would roll back into her head and she'd collapse in the checkout aisle...hmm a fresh body!...nah, can't do it to the nice little old lady...she looks too kindly and sweet...although there is that expression curiosity killed the cat...and my mind races to those nice little old ladies that were part of "Arsenic and Old Lace"....nope. Can't do it. I turn towards her and say "I'm really not sure what I'll put in there" and chuckle silently to myself as I exit the store pushing my treasured jar out the door...never to be seen again until Halloween!

Moral of the story: "Don't talk to strangers" can be sage advice!

BTW, if anyone is looking for a container like the one I found, I'm sure other ROSS DRESS FOR LESS locations will have these glass containers on the shelf now or soon since many of the locations seem to get in the same merchandise around the same time. Maybe there's a head jar in your future too!! Oh and there was a shorter jar around the same diameter as well also on the shelf. Didn't notice the price.

Great story....I can so relate to this.... I usually say that things are for art projects...

art projects ... lol ... i like that

So funny!
I actually bought a really huge glass jar with a lid from Target Online.
It is a HUGE jar. I am gonna float a head of cabbage in purple tinted water for Halloween. I saw the prop in a Martha Stewart magazine and i adore it.
When I unboxed the jar, my 16 year old daughter said "Oh what a pretty jar. What are you gonna put in it?" I said "Oh, I don't know" b/c she doesn't approve of my Halloween mania.

I asked her what I should put in it. She said "Cookies, or flowers, or anything nice. Just don't put Halloween stuff in it!"

Sounds like the time I was standing in line at the post office during the pre-Christmas rush with a garbage bag full of boxes slung over my shoulder. Another weary soul standing in line commented that I sure did have a lot of presents to mail. I explained that I was mailing body parts out of the jurisdiction in what I thought was a joking tone. Judging by the look of shock on the person's face, I miscalcuated my audience just a wee bit and probably came thisclose to spending some time in a small room full of police officers.

hahahah. I am always honset, so I would of told the old lady, that I was planning to use it for Halloween reason. Good Story.

Ghost of Spookie, that is a great story!!!

I always have people ask me what I am buying stuff for at Goodwill. And yeah I hesitate to respond because you never know what their reaction is going to be. If you say a Halloween project they always ask what ...."yes I will be dismembering his cute little baby doll and corpsing it"...lol

BTW here's the glass jar container I found at ROSS.

Anchor Hocking Modern Montana Jar

The one at the fabric store, asking me what I was going to use all those yards and yards of denium material for?
"Wrapping up bodies." (Truth.)
Or the one in that same fabric store that was going "EEWWW!, EEEWWW!" as she if unfolding the purchase I was making because the red material had large (cartoonish) pictures of spiders, snakes and a bug on it,
"Where did you get This Material?"
From your store's shelf." She acted like it was infected or had Cooties.
Then there was the one working in a Hospital thrift store who wnen she looked up and noticed me looking for a price tag on a very old wedding dress, gave me her most stupendous
Evil-Eye" (I could tell she just wanted to scream, charge me, knock me down and stand on my throat!)
Maybe I was bringing back some bad old memories for her of getting stood up at the church(probably epidemicly so) Or waiting for her boyfriend to pick her up, meet her family, and he showed up wearing a wedding dress?
And it was THAT Same Dress!