Breaking Displays

Gather 'round oh faithful blog readers. It's story time.

What you're going to learn [[if you haven't already]] in this journey o' coupons is that if you see a tearpad, you're gonna wanna take a coupon. You might not know of an upcoming sale, but having a coupon "just in case" is gonna work in your favor.

If you're Beth, you're gonna take the entire tearpad.

Usually, that's unintentional. More often than not, she'll lead you to believe the entire tearpad just fell apart at the seam, landed into her lap, and it was fate giving this lovely bounty of coupons to her [[hey, I'm not saying it's a bad thing. It actually works out well for me. If a tearpad hadn't fallen in her hand, I would have never had a ton of the CVS Duracell coupons]].

But, the particular incident I'm talking about now [[is this "ye ole" stuff really working for anyone?]] ... it has to do with Cottenelle samples.

Cottenelle had a cardboard display stuffed with thick samples. They had to be thick because not only is it a $1 coupon, it's also a few squares of toilet paper. This is seriously the perfect freebie ... just in case you get yourself into the unfortunate predicament of being in a public stall without TP, well, you could just reach into your purse, pull out this sample, and leave the restroom a happy lady.

I took two and handed one to Beth. When we realized the greatness of this sample, I reached back to grab another pair. Well, there's a flap in the back of the sample that got stuck to the sample below it ... and a handful of samples started coming out at me. I stuffed them back in and figured this was not meant to be.

Beth, however, decided that I'm bad at sample grabbing, but she's an expert, so she reached. The next thing I know, the entire cardboard display comes crashing down. She picked it up and ran out of the aisle.

Since this was the second display that fell victim to Beth, I turned to yell, "Stop breaking things" at her. I only got as far as "Stop ... " when I turned ... and elbowed some lady pretty hard in the side. I thought it was Beth, but then I realized she was practically on the other side of Kmart by that time.

Oops.