What is up with me & TJ Maxx?!

Some of you may remember my belt incident at TJ Maxx..others may have to look it up in my achieve. (People are really shee-ple). It seems every time I go into that store..I cause a raucous.

Today, I went in to buy this huge bear (bigger than me huge) for my "special reader" day with Hays' class. Of course, I had to go over the top. My theme was bears--we read "Going on a Bear Hunt" and "Blueberries for Sal", we ate blueberry muffins, fresh blueberries (I was amazed that a child in her class had never had a fresh blueberry and asked what it was...sigh.) and gummi bears for snack and the show stopper--my gigantic bear from TJ Maxx.

Anywho, I run into TJ Maxx thinking, "I'll just grab the bear, pay for it and rush to the school." I had to keep chanting to myself don't look at the clothes, don't look at the clothes. So, I'm buying the bear, and an employee comes up to ask the manager to break her $5 for some change. I'm lifting the bear off the counter and whack a sign falls from the ceiling and hits this poor lady on the head. I felt so bad for her. I told her that I much rather the sign fall on me than her and I am so sorry. I didn't even see the sign up there. She said, "I guess it's because I don't have any hair, because of the chemo." stab in the heart, stab in the heart. I give them my name and cell phone number for the accident report but explain I have to go to read at my daughter's class. I hope this woman will be okay, it was a very lightweight sign. And it looks like they hang those things from the ceiling with big magnets.

I think I should stop going to TJ Maxx, it seems like every time I go it's a production. I know Tom will be happy to hear of my self imposed TJ Maxx ban. I bet he's hoping some things will fall from the sky at Target now, as well.