The Amazing Race meets the Pottery Barn.......or how we got put in time out.

It was a lovely sunny warm day today in Atlanta and the Boss suggested we take a drive up to Dawsonville to the big outlet mall....
A wonderful shopping experience...they have every store you could possibly ask for plus some big guns.....Namely the Pottery Barn Outlet ....
Let me first say that when the husband made this suggestion I thought it would be smart to drag along out little motorcycle trailer just in case we found something good in the line of furniture or any other large object.....Husband thought if we did find something we could always drive back up the next day.....Not one to argue with the Boss we drove the hour and a half minus the trailer....

It was a red letter day at the outlet.....everybody was having great sales....No...better then great.
Our first stop as usual....The Pottery Barn.
Big signs on the outside windows shouted that there was 50% off furniture and rugs....That would be 50% off the already marked down prices.....Good Deal!!
Husband got excited....He loves the Pottery Barn furniture....especially those little cabinets and useless shelf units.....Not useless to him he always comes away with a bargain.....Hence the reason I suggested bringing along the trailer.....

We peruse the furniture section but in typical P.B. fashion the signs are confusing.....Some items have Big Red Tags....others do not....some things have no tags at all.....and that's were we ran into a problem......You all know by now that when we deal with retail establishments we usually have some sort of ......problem......for lack of a better word........ Today would be no different.
We find two items we just have to have......a little stained "cubby" cabinet with a shelf and a big green painted bookcase...perfect for all my milkglass.....
Husband has a choice between a built "cubby" or one in a box. he picks the one in a box.....The bookcase.... being the only one.... has no price on it....
We find a guy working the aisles and ask about the price of the bookcase and we tell him we would like to purchase it.....He isn't sure about the price but tells us that since there is no tag on it someone has probably already bought it and just hasn't paid for it yet.....P.B. is famous for this particular practice....

In steps Phil from the Amazing Race.....
First we were hit with a Detour....
We had to decide between two tasks......push it or carry it....each with it's own pro's and con's..
We decide to push it....I go get a shopping cart while husband guards the merchandise.
We weave and bob thru the aisles up to the cash register....We approach the cashier and then tell her we want to purchase both the "cubby" in the cart and we also want to know what the story is with the green bookcase....

She raised just one eye brow then said.........
"Sue and John...you're the first team to arrive at the checkout but we're sorry to say you have incurred a penalty....Since there are no tags on the items you want to buy we cannot sell them to you."..........."You must stand off to the side and wait one hour to see if anyone who may have the tags and who may still be shopping in the store comes forward to purchase said items."......after you have waited one hour and no one comes to claim said items you may then checkout".......

Yes Folks.....this really happened......

After checking around to make sure we weren't on camera we checked out the time and went to the food court for some pizza where we discussed how we were going to get both items into the back of the pick-up.......it's not very large at all.....remember I suggested bringing the trailer....Promptly at 5:30 p.m. we returned to the Pit Stop and made our purchase.....it seems if there was another "purchaser" they must have run into a Roadblock.
Out at the truck we discovered the big green bookcase wouldn't fit...
The Boss made mention that we should have brought the trailer.....
We proceeded to disassemble the bookcase so it was now basically a big pile of wood....

It took us a good 45 minutes to do this but it was all okay since the P.B. told us since we checked in at 5:30p.m. we wouldn't be able to leave the parking lot until 5:30 a.m.