Post #286732 by ikitnrev on Mon, Feb 19, 2007 2:52 PM

I stopped at a local Big Lots store this past Saturday. They had a few of the bamboo fountains, lots of slate fountains of various sizes, and no other tiki items for sale.

What was bizarre was the entire store was a fountain. It must have been the mixture of cold weather, frozen water pipes, and probably a bad roof, but water was dripping in from the ceiling at many places around the store. Several aisles were completely closed off, due to wet floors. This included the aisle that sold bath towels - some were on the floor and soaked, others were still on the shelf. I would be in some other 'dry' aisle, and hear the sound of water dripping onto wet cardboard - look up, and see water dripping from the ceiling onto merchandise placed on the top shelf.

It was a bit like the Tonga Room, with their regularly scheduled rainshowers, but the falling water was non-stop, and there was no tiki atmosphere at all -- not something I would recommend for others.

Vern