Post #131815 by tikifish on Sun, Dec 19, 2004 5:33 AM

Well, I finally found one! I was at the goodwill yesterday out in the boonies and as I was checking out with my atomic curtain and disco dancing instruction book, I spied an old box on the counter. It had a sign '25 cents each'. I looked inside and sure enough it was a miniature aluminum tree, with all the branches in sleeves, so I said 'how much for the box?' and they say 'no, 25 cents each. They're decorations'. They were trying to sell off each individual banch for 25 cents as a decoration! I tried to explain to the woman that no, this was a tree, you assemble it, and its really no good as separate pieces, but she said she didn't understand. SO she sent me to the manager, who still insisted that they were just 'decorations' and they were to be sold separately. I pointed to the side of the box where it said CHRISTMAS TREE. I pulled out the isntructions and showed him how it would look put together. He still insisted that I was wrong, and they were just nice little decorations, see? He pulls one branch out of the sleeve and shows me. Im dying as he tries to jam it back in the sleeve backwards. Finally he goes off and get someone else, who tells me OK, 5 bucks for the whole box, probably just to get rid of me, the crazy woman who thinks a box that says 'Aluminum Christmas Tree' might actually be a tree.

When I brought him home he had all his branches, but he was missing his stand... someone probably bought it for 25 cents before I came along and rescued him from certain branch-by-branch decimation... may I present to you Albert, our Two Foot Aluminum Fairyland Christmas Tree.