Yesterday was the busiest shipping day of the year.  And some folks wanted me to ship yarn. And ship yarn I did.  Lots and lots of yarn.  With one exception.

Now….. as an aside…. I almost didn’t post this.  But is was too funny not to post.  I went back and forth.  Let me just say that I love getting phone calls in the shop. I love talking to y’all.  I have never had a difficult customer and running the shop has been a total joy.  So…. I love the phone calls and no…. you don’t have to worry that your phone call will end up here. This one was just exceptional.

I got a phone call yesterday in the shop.  Nice lady (who is now going to kill me if she reads this blog post).  She wanted to know if I ship via express mail.  If I’d use Fed Ex for her, etc.  I explained that we weren’t currently set up for such shipping but I would help her in any way I can. If nothing else, I could box it, weigh it and calculate the costs.  So far, no alarm bells.

Then she asks (this was at 4:15 in the afternoon as I am en route to the post office with the last shipments of the day) if I thought I could arrange for the yarn to arrive first thing in the morning at her office.  I told her that I didn’t think that would be possible but it would depend on the shipping agent’s policies.  ( The "I’m not the bad guy, they’re the bad guy" tactic). Teeny, tiny alarm bells…but not bad.

Then she asked me about the yarn she had in mind.  She was planning on knitting an aran sweater.  She then stated that the pattern she had in mind was St. Brigid. (For those who unfamiliar with this very difficult pattern, here is a post showing one of the most beautiful St. Brigid’s I’ve ever seen).  No alarm bells….actually quite impressed.

She keeps talking about how she wants to knit this sweater and that it would be the perfect gift.  For Christmas.  This Christmas.  Insert alarm bells here.  I tried to mind my own business but then stated that St. Brigid is quite a difficult endeavor to have done by Christmas.    She stated that it would be fine.  She’s done big projects on a short deadline in the past.  She’s all ready to go and knit this for her mom.  She just needs the yarn ASAP.  She’s even got her knitting class booked for that same evening.

Let that sink in for a minute.

She was taking a knitting class that night.  At Michaels.  To learn to knit.  And then was going to start with St. Brigid.  In time for Christmas. 

And I was a good girl.  I gave up a huge sale because I couldn’t, in good conscience, take her money when I thought she was setting herself up for failure.  But, as you can see, I wasn’t such a good girl that I didn’t post about it on the internet!